| Name | Ph.D. Thesis Title (Year) | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Guhan Subramanian | “Displacement Chromatography of Biomolecules” (1990) | Vice President of Engineering, Amgen |
| Michael Phillips | “Optimization and Scale-Up of Displacement Chromatography” (1991) | Director, Next Generation Bioprocessing R&D, MilliporeSigma |
| Dauh-Rung Wu | “Multiphase Enzyme Reactors for Organic Synthesis” (1991) | Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb. |
| Clayton Brooks, III | “On the Characterization of Equilibrium in Ion Exchange Chromatography - Steric Mass Action Ion Exchange” (1993) | Senior Director, Head of Vector & Gene Delivery MSAT, Juno Therapeutics |
| Guhan Jayaraman | “Ion-Exchange Displacement Chromatography of Proteins - Heuristic Approaches to Displacer Design” (1993) | Professor and Head of Biotechnology Department, IIT Madras |
| Joseph Gerstner | “Membrane Chromatography” (1993) | Principal Consultant, Vaccine Process Development, Tunnell Government Services, Inc. |
| Young Kim | “Metal Affinity Displacement Chromatography of Protein” (1993) | Scientist, Genomics Center in Korea |
| Shishir Gadam | “Characterization of Non-Linear Adsorption Properties of Biopolymers” (1994) | Chief Technical Office, Marea Therapeutics |
| Stuart Gallant | “Control of Optimization of Displacement Systems” (1995) | Principal, Sandpiper Pharma |
| Amitava Kundu | “Low Molecular Weight Displacers for Protein Purification in Ion Exchange Systems” (1996) | Director of Manufacturing Sciences, Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
| Suresh Vunnum | “Non-Linear Protein Separations by Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography” (1996) | Director, Global Operations & Biosimilars, Amgen |
| Kristopher Barnthouse | “Purification of Complex Biological Mixtures by High Throughtput Chromatography” (1997) | Sr. Director, Process Development, API; The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson |
| Abhinav Shukla | “Novel Low Molecular Weight Displacers” (1999) | Chief Technical Office, Shattuck Labs |
| Venkatesh Natarajan | “Optimization of Preparative Ion Exchange Chromatography” (1999) | Principal Engineer, Amgen |
| Samir Sane | “RAMAN and FTIR for evaluation of protein conformation on chromatographic surfaces” (1999) | Executive Director, Head of Pharmaceutical Dev (US Biologics) Genetech |
| Cecilia Mazza | “Quantitative-structure based predictions of displacer and protein affinities in chromatographic systems” (2001) | Global Product Manager HPLC columns/ Regional Sales Manager for Latin Countries at Kromasil-Eka Chemicals |
| Khurram Sunsasara | “Hydrophobic Displacement Chromatography” (2002) | Senior Director, Pfizer |
| Nihal Tugcu | “Design of high affinity low molecular weight displacers and investigation of the selectivity of displacers and proteins in ion exchange systems” (2003) | Global Head of Mammalian Platform Process Development and Clinical Manufacturing, Sanofi |
| Kaushal Rege | “Chemoenzymatic synthesis, high-throughput screening, and structure-property relationships of novel bioseparation and DNA-binding agents” (2004) | Fulton Faculty Impact Professor, Arizona State University |
| Fang Xia | “Hydrophobic interaction chromatography - Displacement modeling, process development, selectivity investigation, and displacer design” (2002) | Director of Quality Control, Kite Pharma |
| Deepak Nagrath | “Evolutionary design, multiobjective optimization and control of chromatographic processes” (2003) | Professor at University of Michigan |
| Asif Ladiwala | “A multiscale investigation of protein affinity and displacer efficacy in chromatographic systems using quantitative structure-property relationship modeling” (2005) | Director, Genentech. |
| Rohit Jindal | “Selective filling for patterning in microfluidic channels and integration of chromatography in ‘lab-on-a-chip’ devices using sol-gel technology” (2005) | Staff Scientist, Thermo Fisher |
| Sanchayita Ghose | “Purification of monoclonal antibodies and Fc-fusion proteins - Protein A and beyond” (2005) | Vice President, Biologics Development, BMS |
| Jia Liu | “High affinity and selective displacers for high resolution protein separations in ion-exchange chromatography - displacer ranking, mechanism elucidation, and displacer design” (2006) | Senior Director, WuXi Biologics |
| Ting Yang | “Protein Binding Affinity in Ion Exchange Chromatography and Quantitative Structure Property Relationship Modeling for Chromatographic Systems and Proteomics” (2007) | Sr. Director, FronteraTherapeutics |
| Jie Chen | “Investigation of protein adsorption in hydrophobic interaction chromatographic (HIC) systems” (2007) | Director, Biologics Development, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company |
| Shubhadeep Goswami | “Chip electrochromatographic systems - novel vertically aligned carbon nanotube and silica monoliths based separations” (2009) | Lead Semiconductor Engineer, GE Global Research |
| Wai Keen Chung | “An investigation into the effects of protein surface modifications on protein binding affinity in ion exchange and multimodal chromatography” (2009) | Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Steve Evans | “Displacement chromatography for proteomic applications” (2009) | Director, AstraZeneca |
| Alexander Freed | “Multiscale modeling of chromatographic systems” (2010. Post doctorate at Georgia Institute of Technology) | Manager, Data Scientist, American Express |
| Christopher Morrison | “Automated high throughput screening of selective displacers” (2010) | Senior Vice President , CMC, Avista Therapeutics |
| Miriam Levy | “Selective filling for creating novel chromatographic chip systems” (2010) | Senior Scientist, Advanced Liquid Logic |
| Ying Hou | “QSPR Models of homologous protein libraries” (2011) | Senior Director, Head of CMC Operations, Caldera Therapeutics |
| Melissa Holstein | “Variant libraries for evaluation of multimodal chromatography” (2012) | Associate Director, BMS |
| Rahul Sheth | “Smart biopolymers for affinity precipitation of antibodies” (2014) | Director, BioMarin Pharmaceutical |
| Siddharth Parimal | “Molecular investigations of multimodal ligand-protein interactions” (2014) | Associate Director, GSK |
| James Woo | “Engineering biomolecular interactions to enhance selectivity in chromatographic separations” (2014) | Associate Director, Bristol Myers Squibb. |
| Kartik Srinivasan | “Biophysical investigation of protein-ligand interactions in multimodal chromatography” (2014) | Associate Director, Alexion Pharmaceuticals |
| Hanne Sophie Karkov | “Investigations into multimodal chromatographic selectivity using in silico designed Fab fragment variants and column modeling” (2015) | Head of Department, Purification Research, Novo Nordisk |
| William Keller | “Predictive scale-up of ion-exchange chromatography using high throughput miniature columns” (2015) | Scientist, AstraZeneca |
| Suvrajit Banerjee | “Protein-Surface Interactions In Multimodal Chromatography - A Molecular Modeling Based Investigation” (2016) | Senior Scientist, Downstream Process Development, Novavax |
| Steve Timmick | “Strategies for the development of integrated purification processes fornon-platform biologic therapeutics” (2017) | Principal Scientist, Merck |
| Chaz Goodwine | “Purification of non-mAb biologics - development of integrated purification processes” (2018) | Senior Scientist 2, Just Evotec Biologics |
| Swarnim Ranjan | “Biophysical investigation of Host Cell Protein interactions with mAbs” (2018) | Senior Principal Scientist, Amgen |
| Julie Robinson | “A Protein Surface Properties Perspective on Multimodal Chromatography - From Fundamental Understanding to Predictive Tools” (2018) | Principal Scientist, Merck |
| Nicholas Vecchiarello | “In-silico design of integrated chromatographic purification processes for therapeutic proteins” (2019) | Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia |
| Akshat Mullerpatan | “ELP-ligand based Affinity Precipitation for Protein Purification - Discovery, Design and Process Development” (2019) | Senior Scientist, Sanofi |
| Camille Bilodeau | “The Molecular Phenomena Underlying Multimodal Chromatographic Separations - A Molecular Dynamics Study” (2020) | Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia |
| Ronak Gudhka | “Investigation into the Thermodynamic and Molecular Basis of Protein-Ligand Interactions in Multimodal Chromatography” (2020) | Principal Scientist, Amgen |
| Siddharth S. Parasnavis | “Insights into the Purification of Bispecific Antibodies on Multimodal Systems - From Chromatography to Biophysics” (2021) | Senior Scientist II, AbbVie |
| Ronit Ghosh | “Developing Downstream Bioprocessing for Gene and Cell Therapy Applications” (2021) | Senior Scientist II, Biologics Purification Development, AbbVie |
| Xuan Han | “Protein Devolopability and Downstream Biprocessing - From Predictive Tools to Mechanistic Analysis” (2022) | Senior Scientist, Amgen |
| Mayank Vats | “Elucidating the Role of Multimodal Ligand Surfaces in Protein Chromatography using Molecular Dynamics Simulations” (2022) | Senior Scientist, Bioprocess Development, Merck |
| Imee Sinha | “Characterization of protein surface hydrophobicity using molecular dynamics simulations and deep learning” (2022) | Senior ML Scientist, Genentech. |
| Scott Altern | "Mechanistic Modeling of Multimodal Chromatography: From First-Principles to Principal Applications" (2023) | Senior Scientist I, Purification Process Development, AbbVie. |
| Kabir Dhingra | "Biophysical tools to study preferred binding domains for protein interactions with chromatographic surfaces" (2023) | Senior Scientist, Process R&D, Merck |
| Eric Denbaum | “A Batch Technique for Connecting Multimodal Ligand Chemistry to Chromatographic Separability” (2024) | Senior Scientist I, Purification Process Development, AbbVie. |
| Dongyoun Jang | “Leveraging in-silico mediated approaches for the implementation of multimodal chromatography in mAb purification” (2024) | Senior Scientist, Biological Process R&D, Merck |
| Harshal Soni | “Interplay between Resin Media, Feed Constituents, and Process Conditions in AAV Affinity Chromatographic Systems” (2024) | Senior Scientist I, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine |
| Andrew Kocot | "Two-stage chromatographic purification of lentiviral vectors with enhanced particle characterization via nanoflow cytometry" (2025) | Senior Scientist, Genomic Medicine Purification, Sanofi |
| Matthew Mergy | "Continuous Monoclonal Antibody Purification with Capture via Precipitation" (2025) | Associate Principal Scientist, Merck |
| Cameron DiSpirito | "Purification of Bispecific Antibodies by Multimodal Chromatography and Identification of Salt-tolerant Resin-binding Interfaces" (2025) | Senior Scientist I, Process Development, AbbVie |
| Yuncan (Olivia) Zhu | "Development of Novel Non-Chromatographic Purification Operations for Biological Therapeutics" (2025) | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |