▪ Promote the Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) program and UMBC to prospective students and families
▪ Share fun facts and personal experiences on lab and campus tours
▪ Attend campus and recruiting events to market the CBEE program
▪ Gain valuable leadership, public speaking, and marketing skills and build your resume
▪ Make a difference in the educational futures of prospective students
▪ Make connections with UMBC peers, faculty, and staff members
▪ Earn some extra $$$!
You must be a junior and senior. If interested email Fabiola Attime, fattime@umbc.edu for details.
]]>The 21st Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) Long-Term Ecological Research Program took place on Wednesday and Thursday, 23-24 October in Baltimore, MD at the University of Baltimore. The Research Conference shared updates and results of project investigations with all BES collaborators, interested researchers, educators, local, state and federal agency representatives, media, and community members.
Two of Dr. Claire Welty's students presented at the conference:
PhD Chemical Engineering (2011)
In addition to my PhD, I have 2 professional certificates from UMBC in Biochemical Regulatory Engineering and Biotechnology Management. I joined Decision resources group - a healthcare research and consulting company providing high-value healthcare industry analysis and insights, in Nov 2011 after my PhD, and stayed in the company until Jan 2017. Started as an Analyst of Latin American Markets, and upon leaving I was Director of Global Intelligence at the Market Access team. I have extensive experience in global market access, HTA, payer systems, and P&R strategy across several therapeutic areas.
As a Director at Lifescience Dynamics, I am predominantly involved in client relationship and account directions with project management and talent engagement management, and I am also part of a senior team committed to developing high impact and executable global strategies.
Originally from Portugal, I have lived and worked in Baltimore, Boston and London. After almost 14 years abroad, I have finally returned to my home city, Porto in August 2019.
MS Chemical Engineering (2012), PhD Chemical Engineering (2018)
Post-Doc at the FDA working in the New Technologies and Innovations Group of the CDER/Office of Pharmaceutical Quality.
PhD Chemical Engineering (2016)
Scientist II at NextCure, Inc.
BS Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Track (2014)
MD/PhD Candidate at Duke University
PhD Chemical Engineering (2014)
I am the Director of Business Analysis and Project Management at Acidophil LLC and have been with the company since 2015. Acidophil is an innovation company that uses technical and business information together with synthetic biology and chemistry capabilities to create, manage and co-finance new product opportunities and biotechnology businesses in human health, animal health and agriculture. I have also earned a certification on “Financing Innovation: Valuing Projects and Firms” from Stanford's Center for Professional Development.
PhD Chemical Engineering (2011)
PhD Chemical Engineering (2009)
Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Saint Louis University
Erick Gutierrez was selected as the recipient of the Young Professionals Award in Upstream and Downstream Processing for his poster “Microscale Chromatography toolkits for rapid screening and purification of therapeutic proteins” presented at the 2019 Orlando Meeting.
This award recognizes excellence by a non-student member of the BIOT 3M Separation and Purification Sciences Division and ACS-BIOT (American Chemical Society’s Division of Biochemical Technology) for Young Professionals in Upstream & Downstream Processing. This award is given to professionals 35 years of age or younger who present outstanding research in upstream and downstream processing at the poster session as part of the Division of Biochemical Technology (BIOT) programming at the ACS annual meeting. The 3M Company is the sponsor for this award.
The 2019 BIOT Award for Young Professionals in Upstream & Downstream Processing will be awarded as part of 2020 Spring National Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA from March 22 - 26.
Erick graduated from UMBC with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering (’18). He worked at Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) located in UMBC, as a Systems Design Engineer focused on the product development of microfluidic devices used for downstream processing of therapeutic proteins.
He began his career in microfluidics by working as the team leader of an undergraduate team in Dr. Govind Rao's sensors class, tasked with developing a microfluidic debubbler for his Bio-MOD project funded by DARPA. He was then offered an internship position in the systems design team of the Bio-MOD project under the mentorship of Dr. Abhay Andar, where he was tasked with optimizing and making the bioprocesses used for the G-CSF purification runs, as well as developing, manufacturing, and validating microfluidic devices for downstream processing.
Upon graduation, he was offered a full-time position as a Research Associate in the Bio-MOD project, joining for the second phase of the project in which we had to optimize our process for animal studies. We developed several microfluidic devices, such as mixers, holders, novel and fully customizable chromatography micro-columns (µcols), and multi-functional integrated chips using thermo-plastic solvent bonding methods and adhesives. Our work for "Low‐cost customizable microscale toolkit for rapid screening and purification of therapeutic proteins," was recently published. (https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.26876) We further expanded our microfluidics research by using wood instead of plastics as our primary material, which led to the publication of “Wood Microfluidics,” published in Analytical Chemistry in 2019.
]]>Dr. Blaney and Dr. Hernández-Maldonado edited Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Water and Wastewater: Advanced Treatment Processes, published by Butterworth-Heinemann 2020. Publication date: 18th October 2019.
"I'm really excited to have published this book with my co-author, Dr. Arturo J. Hernández-Maldonado from the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez. Arturo and I first connected when I was a PhD student, presenting at the American Chemical Society meeting. A couple of years later, we started organizing symposia and co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Hazardous Materials. Eventually, we decided to tackle this new challenge. I'm really pleased with the result, which includes a chapter from my lab with two PhD student authors (i.e., Mamatha Hopanna (PhD candidate) and Kiranmayi Mangalgiri (PhD, 2017)) and two BS student co-authors (i.e., Daniel Ocasio (BS, 2017, valedictorian) and Temitope Ibitoye (BS, 2019)). The book focuses on advanced treatment technologies to remove contaminants of emerging concern, such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, flame retardants, and other specialty chemicals, from drinking water and wastewater. Top-tier researchers from around the world contributed to the book, and we are excited for it to hit the shelves. Ultimately, we hope that this collection of information will help municipalities address ongoing concerns about the presence of contaminants of emerging concern in water resources." - Dr. Lee Blaney