Monday May 23, 2011
Laboratory Automation for Materials and Chemistry
Albany Marriott
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Technical Program:
"High Throughput Methods for Development of Functional Biomaterials"
Joachim Kohn, Ph.D.
Professor Joachim Kohn is the Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University. He has served as Director of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials since its establishment in 1997. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and the Chair of the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. He is the principal investigator of several leading federally-funded R&D programs: NIH-funded postdoctoral training program in Tissue Engineering, NIH funded National Resource for Polymeric Biomaterials (RESBIO), the DoD-funded Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR) and the DoD-funded Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM).
Professor Kohn's research interests focus on the development of new biomaterials. He pioneered the use of combinatorial and computational methods for the optimization of biomaterials for specific medical applications. He is mostly known for his seminal work on "pseudo-poly(amino acid)s". He has published over 200 scientific manuscripts and reviews, and holds 45 patents.
In 2007, Professor Kohn was inducted into the New Jersey High-Tech Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for best medical technology patent in New Jersey, once in 1999 for his invention of tyrosine-derived polycarbonates, and once in 2006 for his invention of the first combinatorially designed library of polyarylates. His other awards include the 2003 Clemson Award for Basic Science of the Society for Biomaterials.
Panel Discussion: "Setup and Operation of a High Throughput Chemical Laboratory"
Moderator: James Cawse, Cawse and Effect LLC, Pittsfield, MA
K.F. Brandstadt, Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, MI
Anne Lapointe, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hubert Lam, General Electric Global Research, Niskayuna, NY
Paul Isbester, Albany Molecular Research, Inc., Albany, NY
Ichiro Takeuchi, Professor, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland
Dr. James Cawse is owner of Cawse and Effect LLC, a consulting organization devoted to helping organizations develop strategies and tactics for efficient problem solving and experimentation in chemical and materials sciences. Dr. Cawse was experimental strategist for the high throughput laboratory at GE Global research and a chemist and experimental design specialist for GE Plastics. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University.
Dr. K. F. Brandstadt is Senior Research Specialist at Dow Corning Corporation and leader of their high throughput laboratory.
Dr. Anne LaPointe received a B.S. in chemistry from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from MIT, where she worked for Professor Richard R. Schrock. She was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Professor Maurice Brookhart. She joined Symyx Technologies in 1997 and worked in the homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis groups. In June 2010 she moved to Cornell University, where she is the director of the Catalyst Discovery and Development Laboratory. Her research interests include organometallic chemistry, catalysis, high-throughput chemistry, and polymer science. The Catalyst Discovery and Development Laboratory is part of Professor Coates' group in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell. Instrumentation includes a FreeSlate CM3 liquid and solid-dispensing platform housed within an inert atmosphere glovebox and a FreeSlate SPR high-pressure batch reactor.
Dr. Hubert Lam is a lead scientist at General Electric-Global Research. He is part of the Combinatorial Chemistry Lab at GE and is involved in numerous material discovery or process optimization projects including high throughput screening of advanced materials in the area of healthcare, energy and water treatment. He holds a Ph. D. in Chemistry from King’s College London.
Dr. Paul Isbester is a senior research scientist with Albany Molecular Research, Inc. actively involved in solid form screening for pharmaceutical development.
Dr. Takeuchi is the director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization at the University of Maryland. He holds a BS from CalTech and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
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Vegetable Display
Cheese Board
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