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March 28, 2024

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Karen Vilas

Recognized globally as a leader in process safety, Karen’s career has focused on Facility Siting Studies and Quantitative Risk Analyses for oil & gas and petrochemical facilities.  Beginning in 2019, Karen helped to establish the Low Carbon Energy service offerings within BakerRisk, leading the Hydrogen and Hydrogen Carriers initiatives within the organization.  Karen has been an active member of AIChE and AIChE’s Center for Hydrogen Safety for many years including working with the CHS Organizing Committee in 2022. 

In August 2022, Karen became President...Read more

Craig Martin

Professor Martin’s lab at UMass Amherst has studied the enzymology of T7 RNA polymerase for more than 35 years. This enzyme is widely used to manufacture RNA for a wide variety of applications, including the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines. Exploiting their vast knowledge base, and in collaboration with a chemical engineer at UMass, they are developing novel flow manufacturing approaches for the synthesis of RNA free of dsRNA at the outset. These approaches will also yield significant manufacturing cost reductions.Read more

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Jeffrey Smith

Jeff Smith is an Associate Principal Scientist in the Vaccine Drug Product Development department at Merck based out of West Point, PA. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia and master’s degree in Biological Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University. He has spent most of his career working with siRNA or mRNA lipid nanoparticle drug delivery technologies. He has worked on clinical scale mixing and fill/finish LNP unit operations including Tee-mixing, ultrafiltration, sterile filtration, and vial filling....Read more

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