Alumni

NamePh.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, CARGO 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)Associate 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)Principal 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” (2005)Senior Scientist, Hurel Corp
Sanchayita Ghose“Purification of monoclonal antibodies and Fc-fusion proteins - Protein A and beyond” (2005)Executive Director, Head of Global Downstream/Pilot Plant/External Manufacturing & DVN BD site head, 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)Head of CMC Process Development Center,
China Resources Biopharmaceutical Co. Ltd
Ting Yang“Protein Binding Affinity in Ion Exchange Chromatography and Quantitative Structure Property Relationship Modeling for Chromatographic Systems and Proteomics” (2007)Sr. Director-Process Development, AAV Gene Therapy
Jie Chen“Investigation of protein adsorption in hydrophobic interaction chromatographic (HIC) systems” (2007)Senior Director, CMC lead, WuXi Biologics
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)Associate Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Steve Evans“Displacement chromatography for proteomic applications” (2009)Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Alexander Freed“Multiscale modeling of chromatographic systems” (2010. Post doctorate at Georgia Institute of Technology)Data Scientist, Laureate International Universities
Christopher Morrison“Automated high throughput screening of selective displacers” (2010)Senior Vice President - Head of Technical Operations; 
Myrtelle, Inc
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)Director, Downstream Process Development, Gene Therapy; PTC Therapeutics, Inc
Melissa Holstein“Variant libraries for evaluation of multimodal chromatography” (2012)Associate Director, BMS
Rahul Sheth“Smart biopolymers for affinity precipitation of antibodies” (2014)Senior Scientist 2, Gene Therapy CMC Technical Lead,
Purification Process Development, Biomarin Pharmaceutical
Siddharth Parimal“Molecular investigations of multimodal ligand-protein interactions” (2014)Scientific Lead, Downstream Process Development, GSK
James Woo“Engineering biomolecular interactions to enhance selectivity in chromatographic separations” (2014)Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb.
Kartik Srinivasan“Biophysical investigation of protein-ligand interactions in multimodal chromatography” (2014)Director of Process Development, Avectas
Hanne Sophie Karkov“Investigations into multimodal chromatographic selectivity using in silico designed Fab fragment variants and column modeling” (2015)Purification Specialist, 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, 
Shattuck Labs
Steve Timmick“Strategies for the development of integrated purification processes fornon-platform biologic therapeutics” (2017)Principal Investigator, Downstream Process Development, 
GSK
Chaz Goodwine“Purification of non-mAb biologics - development of integrated purification processes” (2018)Senior Scientist, Just Evotec Biologics
Swarnim Ranjan“Biophysical investigation of Host Cell Protein interactions with mAbs” (2018)Senior Scientist, Amgen
Julie Robinson“A Protein Surface Properties Perspective on Multimodal Chromatography - From Fundamental Understanding to Predictive Tools” (2018)Associate 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)Scientist-I, 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)Scientist, Process Development, Amgen
Siddharth S. Parasnavis“Insights into the Purification of Bispecific Antibodies on Multimodal Systems - From Chromatography to Biophysics” (2021)Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
Ronit Ghosh“Developing Downstream Bioprocessing for Gene and Cell Therapy Applications” (2021)Scientist, Genomic Medicine Unit, Sanofi
Xuan Han“Protein Devolopability and Downstream Biprocessing - From Predictive Tools to Mechanistic Analysis” (2022)Scientist, Process Development, 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)Computational Scientist II, Prescient Design, 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)Scientist III, R&D, Thermo Fisher
Harshal Soni“Interplay between Resin Media, Feed Constituents, and Process Conditions in AAV Affinity Chromatographic Systems” (2024)Senior Scientist I, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

 

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