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Kiersten Campbell

Kiersten Campbell is chemical engineer at Snapdragon Chemistry, where she works on commercial process research and development for clients in the pharmaceutical space. With a focus on continuous manufacturing, her expertise is in process development and optimization, reactor design, scale-up, and tech transfer for a wide range of chemistries and unit operations. Kiersten holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University. ...Read more

Lisa Berrie

Lisa Berrie is currently an R&D Leader at Dow. She joined Dow in 2011 after graduating with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University. Lisa has held a variety of roles in Process Research & Development and Manufacturing. She is a silicone resins subject matter expert and has demonstrated her technical leadership through leadership and support of various full-scale process improvements, new process development, and the start-up of a new silicone resin plant in Asia. Lisa also led a key innovation platform at Dow, where she was responsible for driving alignment on...Read more

Nate Stelzer

Nate Stelzer is a Senior Research Specialist at Dow Inc. His 8 year career in the chemical industry has been spent in silicone process research and development. Nate's primary responsibilities center on new product commercialization and optimization of existing products. He has considerable experience with effectively transitioning products between batch and continuous assets at the lab, pilot, and commercial scale. He is the recipient of an R&D 100 award and an Edison Gold award. Nate earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida.Read more

Manish Kelkar

Manish Kelkar graduated from University of Notre Dame with a PhD in Chemical Engineering. After working in DuPont Central Research Development (CRD) for about 7 years, Manish moved to AbbVie Inc in 2016. Since then, he has been a part of Center of Excellence for Isolation and Separation Technologies (CoExIST) and is leading the cross-functional Allied Separations Forum (ASF). Over the last few years, Manish has contributed to multiple early and late-stage API projects by developing robust separation and isolation processes and by providing engineering input.Read more

Jacob Forstater

Jacob earned his Ph.D. in Physics from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he investigated protein self-assembly and protein-surface interactions. Before joining Merck in 2016, Jacob was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, where he developed key nucleotide modifications and algorithms for nanopore-based next-generation sequencing by synthesis. Jacob is currently an Associate Principal Scientist in the Enabling Technologies department in  Merck Process Research & Development organization, based in Rahway, NJ, where he leads the development of new enzyme immobilization technologies and...Read more

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