Alumni
Guhan Subramanian: “Displacement Chromatography of Biomolecules”, degree conferred in 1990. Vice President Process and Product Development, Amgen.
Michael Phillips: “Optimization and Scale-Up of Displacement Chromatography”, degree conferred in 1991. Director, Bioprocess Development, EMD Millipore.
Dauh-Rung Wu: “Multiphase Enzyme Reactors for Organic Synthesis”, degree conferred in 1991. Research Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb.
Clayton Brooks, III: “On the Characterization of Equilibrium in Ion Exchange Chromatography - Steric Mass Action Ion Exchange”, degree conferred in 1993. Retired from Amgen.
Guhan Jayaraman: “Ion-Exchange Displacement Chromatography of Proteins - Heuristic Approaches to Displacer Design”, degree conferred in 1993. Professor and Head of Biotechnology Department, IIT Madras.
Joseph Gerstner: “Membrane Chromatography”, degree conferred in 1993. Bioprocessing Consultant.
Young Kim: “Metal Affinity Displacement Chromatography of Protein”, degree conferred in 1993. Scientist, Genomics Center in Korea.
Shishir Gadam: “Characterization of Non-Linear Adsorption Properties of Biopolymers”, degree conferred in 1994. Senior Director, Head Biologics DS and DP Technical Leaders and External Manufacturing MSAT at Genentech.
Stuart Gallant: “Control of Optimization of Displacement Systems”, degree conferred in 1995. VP, Engineering and Product Development at Pro-Dex, Inc.
Amitava Kundu: “Low Molecular Weight Displacers for Protein Purification in Ion Exchange Systems”, degree conferred in 1996. Associate Director, Process Development at Genmab MN Inc.
Suresh Vunnum: “Non-Linear Protein Separations by Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography”, degree conferred in 1996. Scientific Director of Process Development, Amgen.
Kristopher Barnthouse: “Purification of Complex Biological Mixtures by High Throughtput Chromatography”, degree conferred in 1997. Director, API Large Molecule Development, Johnson & Johnson.
Abhinav Shukla: “Novel Low Molecular Weight Displacers”, degree conferred in 1999. Vice President, Process Development and Manufacturing at KBI Biopharma Inc.
Venkatesh Nataragan: “Optimization of Preparative Ion Exchange Chromatography”, degree conferred in 1999. Senior Engineer III, Process at Biogen Idec.
Samir Sanes: “RAMAN and FTIR for evaluation of protein conformation on chromatographic surfaces”, degree conferred in 1999. Director, Early Pharmaceutical Development Group, Genentech.
Cecilia Mazza: “Quantitative-structure based predictions of displacer and protein affinities in chromatographic systems”, degree conferred in 2001. Global Product Manager HPLC columns/ Regional Sales Manager for Latin Countries at Kromasil-Eka Chemicals.
Khurram Sunsasara: “Hydrophobic Displacement Chromatography”, degree conferred in 2002. Principal Scientist, Pfizer.
Nihal Tugcu: “Design of high affinity low molecular weight displacers and investigation of the selectivity of displacers and proteins in ion exchange systems”, degree conferred in 2003. Executive Director Process Development & Engineering at Merck Co., Inc.
Kaushal Rege: “Chemoenzymatic synthesis, high-throughput screening, and structure-property relationships of novel bioseparation and DNA-binding agents”, degree conferred in 2004. Associate Professor, Arizona State University.
Fang Xia: “Hydrophobic interaction chromatography - Displacement modeling, process development, selectivity investigation, and displacer design”, degree conferred in 2002. Scientist, Amgen.
Deepak Nagrath: “Evolutionary design, multiobjective optimization and control of chromatographic processes”, degree conferred in 2003. Assistant Professor at Rice University.
Asif Ladiwala: “A multiscale investigation of protein affinity and displacer efficacy in chromatographic systems using quantitative structure-property relationship modeling”, degree conferred in 2005. Senior Engineer / Group Leader, BioProcess Development, Genentech.
Rohit Jindal: “Selective filling for patterning in microfluidic channels and integration of chromatography in ‘lab-on-a-chip’ devices using sol-gel technology”, degree conferred in 2005. Instructor, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Sanchayita Ghose: “Purification of monoclonal antibodies and Fc-fusion proteins - Protein A and beyond”, degree conferred in 2005. Principal Engineer/Associate Director, Biogen Idec.
Jia Liu: “High affinity and selective displacers for high resolution protein separations in ion-exchange chromatography - displacer ranking, mechanism elucidation, and displacer design”, degree conferred in 2006. Senior Research Associate, Genentech.
Ting Yang: “Protein Binding Affinity in Ion Exchange Chromatography and Quantitative Structure Property Relationship Modeling for Chromatographic Systems and Proteomics”, degree conferred in 2007. Senior Development Specialist II, Shire.
Jie Chen: “Investigation of protein adsorption in hydrophobic interaction chromatographic (HIC) systems”, degree conferred in 2007. Senior Scientist, Bistol-Myers Squibb.
Shubhadeep Goswami: “Chip electrochromatographic systems - novel vertically aligned carbon nanotube and silica monoliths based separations”, degree conferred in 2009. Process Engineer, Intel.
Wai Keen Chung: “An investigation into the effects of protein surface modifications on protein binding affinity in ion exchange and multimodal chromatography”, degree conferred in 2009. Scientist II, Medimmune.
Steve Evans: “Displacement chromatography for proteomic applications”, degree conferred in 2009. Senior Scientist, Medimmune.
Alexander Freed: “Multiscale modeling of chromatographic systems”, degree conferred in 2010. Post doctorate at Georgia Institute of Technology. Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting.
Christopher Morrison: “Automated high throughput screening of selective displacers”, degree conferred in 2010. Senior Scientist at Dimension Therapeutics.
Miriam Levy: “Selective filling for creating novel chromatographic chip systems”, degree conferred in 2010. Senior Scientist, Advanced Liquid Logic.
Ying Hou: “QSPR Models of homologous protein libraries”, degree conferred in 2011. Senior Research Biochemical Engineer, Merck.
Melissa Holstein: “Variant libraries for evaluation of multimodal chromatography”, degree conferred in 2012. Scientist, EMD Millipore.
Rahul Sheth: “Smart biopolymers for affinity precipitation of antibodies”, degree conferred in 2014. Scientist I, Biomarin.
Siddharth Parimal: “Molecular investigations of multimodal ligand-protein interactions”, degree conferred in 2014. Scientist I, Biogen Idec.
James Woo: “Engineering biomolecular interactions to enhance selectivity in chromatographic separations”, degree conferred in 2014. Research Scientist I, Gilead Sciences.
Kartik Srinivasan: “Biophysical investigation of protein-ligand interactions in multimodal chromatography”, degree conferred in 2014. Scientist I, Process Development, Amgen.
Hanne Sophie Karkov: “Investigations into multimodal chromatographic selectivity using in silico designed Fab fragment variants and column modeling”, degree conferred in 2015. Research Scientist in Downstream Technology, Novo Nordisk, Denmark.
William Keller: “Predictive scale-up of ion-exchange chromatography using high throughput miniature columns”, degree conferred in 2015. Post Doctoral Fellow, Novo Nordisk, Denmark.
Suvrajit Banerjee: “Protein-Surface Interactions In Multimodal Chromatography - A Molecular Modeling Based Investigation”, degree conferred in 2016. Entrepreneurial Scientist, Avantor.
Steve Timmick: “Strategies for the development of integrated purification processes fornon-platform biologic therapeutics”, degree conferred in 2017. Scientist, Glaxo Smith Kline.
Chaz Goodwine: “Purification of non-mAb biologics - development of integrated purification processes”, degree conferred in 2018. Scientist, AGC Biologics.
Swarnim Ranjan: “Biophysical investigation of Host Cell Protein interactions with mAbs”, degree conferred in 2018. Scientist, BMS.
Julie Robinson: “A Protein Surface Properties Perspective on Multimodal Chromatography - From Fundamental Understanding to Predictive Tools”, degree conferred in 2018. Scientist, Merck.
Nicholas Vecchiarello: “In-silico design of integrated chromatographic purification processes for therapeutic proteins”, degree conferred in 2019. Scientist, Amgen.
Akshat Mullerpatan: “ELP-ligand based Affinity Precipitation for Protein Purification - Discovery, Design and Process Development”, degree conferred in 2019. Scientist-I, Sanofi.