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AI may predict if new drugs can cause birth defects

Artificial intelligence identified approved drugs most likely to cause birth defects and might be able to predict teratogenic - More -

FDA: Pfizer plant damage to have little effect on supply

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the agency does not expect the damage in Pfizer's North Carolina plant caused by an EF3 t - More -

Court sides with deadlines affecting small refineries

Revised Renewable Fuel Standard compliance deadlines affecting small refineries are reasonable, according to a federal appeal - More -

LyondellBasell buys 50% interest in Stiphout

LyondellBasell has taken a 50% interest in Stiphout Industries, a recycler based in the Netherlands that procures post-consum - More -

Shawn Feist selected for the 2023 Management Award

[July 29, 2023] Shawn Feist was selected as the recipient of this year’s Management Award. The award will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting to be held in November 2023 in Orlando, Florida.

We welcome nominations for the 2024 Young Leader Award

[July 28, 2023] The Young Leader Award (YLA) presented by the Management Division recognizes an outstanding leader under 40 years old by the nomination deadline who has made a significant contribution to the success of their organization by advancing a scope, project, unit, plant, division, technology, strategy or company that made an impact to the practice or field of chemical engineering.

Terrence Dobrowsky

Terrence currently leads the Gene Therapy Drug Substance Process Development at Biogen.  His group has supported the development of end-to-end production technologies to improve productivity and yield while maintaining target product quality for multiple AAV gene therapy programs.  Before joining the Gene Therapy Department, he contributed to initiatives for Biogen Biologics programs including early phase development, mid-phase optimization and late-phase process characterization.  Terrence earned B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the...Read more

Jackie Gonzalez

Jackie Gonzalez received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University where she studied metabolism and application of 13C-metabolic flux analysis in bacteria and CHO cells. She joined Takeda in 2018 and is now leading a team that focuses on implementation of new upstream technologies as well as upstream platform development.Read more

John Boudreaux

John Boudreaux is a Senior Industrial Data Scientist at Fero Labs, where he has helped enterprise industrial customers find opportunities to leverage machine learning in chemical and steel processes for the last 2 years. Before Fero Labs, he began his career at BASF in production, eventually switching over to data science specializing in manufacturing use cases. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master's of Information and Data Science from University of California Berkeley.

John enjoys finding ways to leverage his...Read more

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