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Cristina Puig-Saus

Cristina Puig-Saus, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Puig-Saus is also a Senior Fellow from the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSRCR). She graduated from the University of Barcelona, and, after completing her Ph.D. work developing strategies to improve the design of oncolytic adenovirus, she joined Dr. Ribas’ team at UCLA as a postdoctoral fellow. During her postdoctoral training...Read more

Michael Schultz

With 20 years of experience in the fuels, chemicals, and renewable energy sectors, I have a proven track record of leading process development, scaleup and commercialization of innovative process technology to reduce carbon footprint and improve the bottom line. I have been granted more than 40 US patents for this work. 

Currently I manage my firm PTI Global Solutions, helping companies bring value to their great ideas for next generation products and technologies in the bioproducts, chemicals, fuels, and nutrition space. I have helped companies develop and execute scale-up...Read more

Xiaodan Ji

Xiaodan Ji is a Principal Investigator in the Drug Substance Process Development Department at GSK, Upper Merion. She holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, during which she worked on receptor tyrosine kinase in cancer cell proliferation and survival. After that, she was Postdoctoral Fellows at UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania, working on the molecular mechanisms in cancer progression and metastasis. Xiaodan has co-authored over 10 research papers. Since joining GSK, she has been working on various biopharma projects including cell line development for mAbs and enzymes,...Read more

Juan Carlos Aon

Juan’s Ph.D. was awarded at the National University of Argentina in 1996 with a major in biochemistry and metabolic engineering. 

Also, he went through a Post-Doctoral Research position in Metabolic Engineering at the Chascomus Institute of Technology, Buenos Aires, from 1996 to 1998; and followed by a Post-Doctoral Associate in Biochemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...Read more

Keegan Orzechowski

Keegan Orzechowski is a Principal Investigator in the Drug Substance Process Development Department at GSK, Upper Merion. He holds a B.S. in Biotechnology from The Pennsylvania State University. Since joining GSK, Keegan has worked throughout commercial manufacturing, pilot plant, and development spaces and co-authored 2 research papers. For the last 13 years he has worked in microbial and mammalian upstream process development including optimization and characterization of dAbs and mAbs with a focus on metabolomics...Read more

Tidewater AIChE at Richmond Flying Squirrels Baseball Game 06/12/22

May 9, 2022
Sunday, June 12, 2022,
1:30pm to 4:00pm
EDT
The Tidewater local section of AIChE will be at the Richmond Flying Squirrels game at The Diamond, 3001 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd. Richmond, VA on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Our tickets are in section 104, field level seats on the first base line, just up from the Flying Squirrels dugout. This is a great...Read more

Rick Ray

Rick Ray is a Process Development Engineer for Corteva Agriscience in Actives & Product Technology R&D located in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from Purdue University with a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Rick joined Corteva Agriscience in the Process Sciences & Technology group as a Process Development Engineer to develop and implement technology improvements for commercial applications. In his first two years in the role he has delivered engineering solutions to problems relating to solid isolations, batch distillations, reaction characterization and solvent recovery...Read more

Santiago Faucher

Santiago graduated in 1996 with a degree in chemical engineering and began designing and starting-up metallurgical plants for clients of Hatch Ltd. In 2002, he left to complete his Ph.D.. Upon graduation, he worked as a researcher for Xerox and as a professor at McMaster University. At Xerox, Santiago lead teams to develop new materials and processes and was Manager of the Composite Materials Process Engineering Area. In 2012, Santiago left Xerox to lead Technology Development for Hatch Ltd. where he developed technologies and established the company’s innovation ecosystem. In 2017,...Read more

Benjamin Cohen

Benjamin Cohen earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University in 2004, and then joined the Chemical Engineering Research & Development group at Merck. Subsequently he earned his M.E. from Lehigh University. Ben then took process development roles at Celgene in 2010, and Bristol Myers Squibb in 2012. Ben is currently an Associate Scientific Director in the Development Engineering Group in Chemical Process Development at BMS, where he focuses on development and tech transfer of processes to make small molecule drug substances. His focus includes reaction engineering,...Read more

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