The Bioseparations Area is excited to annonce that Jennifer Pollard, Executive Director - Downstream Process Development and Engineering at Merck, will be delivering a keynote address at the 2021 AIChE Fall National Meeting. If you'd like to present your work at the meeting, please submit your...
Dr. Lee is a veteran biotech executive with over a decade of experience leading cell and gene therapy programs for human applications. Currently serving as the CSO at Senti Biosciences, Dr. Lee leads the company’s effort to leverage Senti’s gene circuits and synthetic biology platform for the development of next generation CAR-NK therapeutics for difficult-to-treat cancer indications. Previously as VP of Cell Therapy at Sangamo Therapeutics, Dr. Lee led the company’s programs around T-cell engineering, including CAR-T cell therapies for oncology applications (a platform recently licensed...Read more
Dr. Yu has degrees from Fudan University and University of South Carolina. He joined the Danforth Center in 2001 as a Principal Investigator until 2012. He has published more than 120 manuscripts and patents in the area of metabolic engineering. Dr. Yu co-founded Conagen Inc, in 2010. Conagen has more than 200 scientists and engineers in three cities, and more than 40 products in commercial scale production, including the BesteviaTM line of natural sweeteners. ...Read more
Jesse Bloom is an associate professor at the Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center and an Investigator of HHMI. Jesse’s group uses a mix of computation and experiment to study the evolution of viruses, including influenza virus, SARS-CoV-2, and HIV. Jesse received his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech in 2007 (where he studied protein evolution with FrancesArnold), and performed a postdoc with David Baltimore at Caltech from 2007-2011. He then started his research group at the Fred Hutch in 2011.Read more
The AIChE National Capital Section (NCS) is proud to host Mr. Samir Qadir as a featured speaker for the NCS member virtual meeting on Thursday April 1st, 2021. Mr. Qadir will be providing a briefing related to climate change and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) No Joke, the climate...Read more
The objective of the Ethylene Producers' Committee is to provide a communication medium through meetings, seminars, courses, and publications for the exchange of non-confidential information concerning the manufacture and distribution of ethylene.