Student update

Chaitanya successully defends his MS thesis.

Collaborator/Conference update

Rohit meets up with his Handok collaborator at the AAPS 2018 meeting in Washington DC.

Award update

Rohit receives the AIChE PD2M QbD award in drug product manufacting.

Conference update

 Indu  and Nirupa present their work at the Annual AIChE meeting in Pittsburg, PA.

Funding update

Rohit receives funding from CNH industrial ($118K) to study the effect of  wear from fine particle materials on agricultural equipment, via discrete element modeling.

PI update

Rohit presents the group’s work on Twin screw granulation at the ThermoScientific workshop held at Rutgers University.

PI update

Rohit is invited to submit a proposal to IFPRI on the group’s on model based design of granulation processes.

Funding update

Rohit receives funding ($1,800,000) from the U.S. FDA in the area of Modeling and control of upstream bioprocessing. Other investigators are M. Ierapetritou, R. Singh, S. Chundawat, H. Zhang and G. Tsilomelekis.

Funding Update

Rohit receives funding ($4,000,000) from the U.S. FDA in the area of Industry 4.0 implementation in pharmaceutical drug product manufacturig. Other investigators are M. Ierapetritou, F. Muzzio, R. Singh, B. Glasser from Rutgers and G. Reklaitis, Z. Nagy and M. Gonzales from Purdue.

PI update

Rohit heads to the National Science Foundation in DC for two NSF panels.

PI update

Rohit presents the group’s work on Modeling and control at the PMTC knowledge day.

PI update

Rohit is invited to the annual scientific advisory board (SAB) member meeting at the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology Center (PMTC) at the Uni. of Limerick, Repubic of Ireland.

Student update

Mathew Billups successully defends his MS thesis under the direction of Dr. Ravendra Singh.

Industrial meet

Rohit, Nirupa and Ravendra head to Beerse, Belgium for their sponsor meeting with Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

PI Update

Rohit receives the Board of Trustees Award for excellence in research

Current Student Update

Nirupa successfully defends her PhD thesis proposal

Alumni Update

Christina successfully completes her undergraduate research with us and begins her new job at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals as a biotech production specialist.

PI update

Rohit spends some time at Imperial College London working with Dr. Jerry Heng.

Funding Update

Rohit (co-PI) receives 450K in funding from DOE for his work on fingerprinting and detection using NIR

PI update

Rohit attends and presents the group’s work on PBM-RTD model development at the World Congress of Particle Technology (WCPT) conference in Orlando, FL, USA.

Current Student Update

Indu is offered a Process Engineering Science internship position at Abbvie, Chicago, IL from June-August 2018

Current Student Update

Shashank receives a summer internship position at Celgene Corp, NJ. He will be working in area of roller compaction in their drug product development department.

PI Update

As part of his Sabbatical, Rohit spends a few weeks at the Technical Uni. of Hamburg, Germany with Prof. Stefan Heinrich and Dr. Maksym Dosta

Alumni Update

Savitha is offered a job at Hovione as a PAT scientist.

Alumni Update

Anjali is offered a job at Henkel as an application engineer.

Alumni Update

Glinka starts to work at Reliance Vitamin as a R&D associate.

PI Update

Rohit begins his Sabbatical at the Technical Uni. of Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic and Imperial College London, UK

Funding Update

Rohit receives 50K from NSF to fund a graduate student to work in a pharmaceutical company in support of his/her PhD research