Award Update

Franklin  won Second Place in the student research poster competition at the 2015 AIChE National Meeting in Salt Lake City. He received the award for his work on “Hybrid Parallelization of Population Balance Models for Massively Accelerated Modeling of Particulate Processes”. Franklin was sponsored by the Rutgers AIChE chapter to go to Salt Lake City to present his work. His work is funded by an NSF REU grant on multi-scale modeling and analysis of granulation processes. 

Current Student Update

Huiyi beings a 6 month co-op at Janssen Pharmaceuticals working in the area of information technology and database development

Alumni Update

Siddhi beings her PhD studies at Purdue University, Dept. of Industrial & Physical Pharmacy

Alumni Update

Manogna begines her PhD studies at Arizona State University (ASU), Dept. of Chemical Engineering working in the group of Prof. Heather Emady

New Students Update

Christina and Raj join the group as Aresty undergrad students for 1 year and will work in the areas of wet granulation and high performance computing respectively

Current Student Update

 Franklin successfully completes his Aresty student and will continue in the grp towards a Slades Scholars thesis

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from FDA ($4 mil) (PI: F. Muzzio) for developing tools to enable real-time release of pharmaceutical tablets via continuous manufacturing 

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from NSF ($800K) (PI: B. Glasser) to commercialize process models for pharmaceutical processes 

Funding update

Rohit receives funding from BASF ($100K) (co-PI: B. Glasser) to develop multi-scale PBM-DEM models of wet granulation processes 

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from NSF ($285K) (PI: M. Ierapetritou)  on developing cyberinfrastructure enabled  multi-scale models of pharmaceutical processes 

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from Janssen Phamaceuticals  ($115K)  (PI: M. Ierapetritou) on developing recipe infrastructure for pharmaceutical manufacturing processes 

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his work at the AAPS 2015 conference on challenges and application of PBM and DEM in industrial applications

Alumni Update

Dana successfully defends her PhD thesis and is now working full-time at Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) as a consultant

Alumni Update

Sreenath joins Sanofi Pasteurs in Pennsylvania as a full time employee

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to give a 1 day course on process modeling, control and integration at Brewer Science, Rolla, MO

Promotion Update

Ravendra is promoted to Asst. Research Professor

Alumni Update

Maitraye begins her postdoctoral studies at Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University working under the supervision of Prof. Jim Litster 

New Student Update

Yanira (REU student) and Ana (Brazilian Mobility program) join the group for 2 months as visiting undergrad interns

New Student Update

Andreas Roman begins his 2 month summer internship (PhD student from UPRM) working on  process sensing of the direct compaction line

Current Student Update

Chandra begins a 3 month internship at Alcon (a Novartis subsidiary ) working on opthamological formulations 

Current Student Update

Siddharth begins a 3 month internship at Teva Pharmaceuticals, NY, working on powder processing 

Current Student Update

Suparna begins a 3 month internship at Evonik Industries, Marl, Germany working on catalyst powder manufacture

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his research at Evonik Industries, Marl, Germany

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his research work at BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany 

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his research work at Novartis, Basel, Switzerland 

Award Update

Anwesha is awarded the SOE outstanding graduate student award given to graduating PhD students who have demonstrated outstanding research and scholarship

Award Update

Rohit is awarded the CBE best mentor/teacher/advisor award as voted by the graduate students 

Award Update

Rohit is awarded the outstanding CBE faculty award for accomplishments in scholarship, teaching and service

Award Update

Anik is awarded the CBE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from Rutgers Research Council to work on understanding the effects of formulation properties on heteroaggregates

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from GSK ($200k) (co-PIs: M. Ierapetritou, F. Muzzio) to work on process control, integration and sensing of a continuous manufacturing direct compaction line

Alumni Update

Suyang beings a full time job at Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Current Student Update

Subodh successfully defends his MS thesis and is starting a full-time PhD in the group

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his work at Brewer Science, Rolla, MO as part of their distinguished lecture series in Apr 2015

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from Bosch, Germany ($47.5K) (co-PI: F. Muzzio) to work on the experimental characterization and optimal design space evaluation of continuous granulation processes

Conference Update

Rohit is invited to present his work on pharmaceutical process control for continuous systems at the New Pharmaceutical Technology and Engineering (NPTE) conference in Jul 2015, Tokyo, Japan

Current Student Update

Dana begins her internship (6 months) at PSE working in the general area of process modeling of pharmaceutical systems

Conference Update

The group had 2 papers accepted in international conferences. 1. ESCAPE (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Singh, Muzzio, Ierapetritou, Ramachandran) and 2. Granulation conference (Sheffield, UK) (Tamrakar, Barrasso, Ramachandran)

New Addition Update

Several new MS students (Suparna, Siddharth, Dheeraj, Charles, Huiyi) join the group

Current Student Update

Maitraye successfully defends her PhD thesis

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding from Janssen (J&J) ($3,500,000, PI: Muzzio, coPIs: Ierapetritou, Glasser, Cuitino) to work on the expansion and integration of continuous manufacturing processes