Fábio Almeida
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
1994 – Graduation in Biochemistry at University of São Paulo
1994-1996- Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Pennsylvania – Protein NMR – Structure of membrane proteins
1997 – now – Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Amezcua
FMC Corporation
Technical Session #7: “Sweating the small stuff – tales of impurities and degradants”
BS in Chemistry from Universidad de las Americas. Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Texas Christian University. Postdoc at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Carlos worked at Baxter Healthcare for several years and currently works for FMC Corporation.
Bruce Balcom
University of New Brunswick
A Portable Submersible MR sensor – The Proteus Magnet
Technical Session #9: “Fields of Dreams, a new era of instrumentation”
materials”
Canada Research in Material Science MRI. UNB MRI Centre has developed and commercialized numerous practical materials MR/MRI methods. We have developed a family of low field portable magnets, employed by select labs worldwide.
Sven Bodenstedt
ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Applications of ultralow-field-cycling NMR
Technical Session #4: “Relaxation, it’s not just for weekends anymore”
From 2019: PhD fellow at the Institut of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain
2015: Master’s degree in physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
2012: Bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
Katharine Briggs
University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy
Time Domain wNMR for the Characterization and Quality Assurance of Vaccines and Adjuvants
Dr. Katharine Briggs is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in the lab of Dr. Bruce Yu where she is exploring ways in which benchtop wNMR methods could be useful in the pharmaceutical industry.
Robert Brinson
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NMR Fingerprinting Strategies for Short Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Technical Session #3: “Bring Me a Higher (Order) Structure”
Robert applies NMR measurements to define the critical quality attribute of higher order structure for biologics, with a focus on monoclonal antibody therapeutics and short oligonucleotides.
David P. Cistola
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
David P. Cistola, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor and biomedical scientist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. His research applies compact magnetic resonance technology to develop practical screening tests for diabetes prevention.
Igor Dikiy
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Technical Session #3: “Bring Me a Higher (Order) Structure”
Igor Dikiy is in the Protein Biochemistry group at Regeneron, using NMR spectroscopy to establish HOS comparability for mAbs. Igor was a postdoc at the CUNY ASRC with Dr Kevin Gardner and got his PhD from the Weill Cornell GSMS with Dr David Eliezer.
Henry Enninful
Leipzig University
Advanced NMR Cryoporometry Characterization of Mesoporous Solids
Technical Session #6: “Check out for the versility of NMR to investigate materials”
Henry R. N. B. Enninful obtained his BSc. and MSc. degrees in engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and the Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Italy. He is currently a Ph.D. student and research assistant at the Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics at the Leipzig University, Germany, where he investigates pore space architecture mainly by nuclear magnetic resonance. In particular, he is interested in understanding and characterizing the complexity of disordered nanoporous solids with NMR cryoporometry.
Darón Freedberg
CBER/FDA
Glycoprotein and glycopeptide analysis using practical NMR methods
Darón Freedberg received his bachelor’s degree in 1990 from UCSD in Chemistry, where he studied stereodynamics with Jay Siegel. In 1994, he earned his Ph.D. at UCLA where he studied conformational isotope effects and helium encapsulated in Buckeyballs, under Frank Anet. After a postdoctoral fellowship studying protein structure and dynamics at the NIH with Dennis Torchia, he took a position at the FDA. Since 1997, he has been combining his experience in stereochemistry, conformational analysis, structure and dynamics. He is now a Principal Scientist who reviews pharmaceutical polysaccharide-based vaccines and leads a research team in NMR studies of oligo- and polysaccharide structure-function relationships.
Philip Grandinetti
Ohio State University
Technical Session #6: “Check out for the versility of NMR to investigate materials”
Philip Grandinetti received his B.S in chemistry in 1982 and M.S. in physical chemistry in 1984 at West Virginia University while working on electron paramagnetic resonance studies of phase transitions in ferro- and anti-ferroelectric materials under Professor Nar S. Dalal. He moved on to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for a Ph.D. in physical chemistry under Professor Jiri Jonas; developing and applying in-situ high pressure nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methodologies in the study of dynamics of model elastohydrodynamic lubricants as well as pressure-induced phase transitions in lipids. After finishing his Ph.D. he took a post-doctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley in the lab of Professor Alex Pines from 1989 to 1993. He began his career at Ohio State University as a professor in chemistry in 1993. During his career he made contributions to a new class of solid-state NMR methods for obtaining high-resolution and sensitivity of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. His research continues to focus on the development and application of multi-dimensional solid-state NMR methods for structural studies of non-crystalline materials and heterogeneous materials.
Derrick Kaseman
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Developments in Earth’s Magnetic Field NMR for Industrial Applications
Technical Session #9: “Fields of Dreams, a new era of instrumentation”
materials”
Derrick Kaseman is a Scientist in the Bioenergy and Biome Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His interests include using NMR to elucidate the structures of materials from small organic molecules to inorganic glasses.
Gennady Khirich
Genentech
Gennady Khirich received his Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from Yale University. Currently, he is a Technical Development Scientist specializing in NMR spectroscopy within the Small Molecule Process Impurities Group at Genentech.
Adam Le Gresley
Kingston University
Technical Session #7: “Sweating the small stuff – tales of impurities and degradants”
PhD at the University of Surrey under Prof Kuhnert. NIH PDRA at Drexel College of Medicine, Philadelphia, US. Kingston University in 2009, Research group working on fluorogenic compounds for pathogen detection and NMR for complex mixture analysis.
Louis Madsen
Virginia Tech
Tracking motions in materials by NMR diffusometry: Challenges, discoveries, and dangers
Technical Session #2: “NMR Developments for materials science and polymers applications”
NMR of polymers, liquid crystals, ionic liquids, electrolytes, and other soft materials. PhD Caltech with Dan Weitekamp, Postdoc UNC with Ed Samulski and Victoria U with Paul Callaghan. Virginia Tech Professor since 2006.
Michael Maiwald
BAM
Dr. Michael Maiwald is physico-chemist. He graduated from Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany, in 1994. In 2012 his habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing
qualification) followed at Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Since 2008 he is head of the division Process Analytical Technology at
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin, Germany
Previously, he was research associate and group leader at central services
analytics at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
His research activities are in the field of quantitative online NMR spectroscopy,
other analytical online methods, chemometrics, gas analysis, and sensor
automation concepts.
He works actively in different industrial, scientific, and standardization working
groups.
John Marino
NIST-IBBR
Since 2008, Dr. Marino has served as the leader of the NIST Biomolecular Structure & Function Group and Associate Director of the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), a joint research institute of the University of Maryland and NIST, in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Marino joined NIST in 1997 as a Research Chemist and was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland. Prior to coming to NIST, Dr. Marino completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University in 1995 and an A.B in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1989. After his PhD, he held an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship for two years at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Marino’s research focuses on precision measurement of biomolecular structure and dynamics, with a recent focus on NMR techniques for characterization of the higher-order-structure (HOS) of biotherapeutics.
Michele Martin
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Quantitative Relaxation Measurements for Low Field Magnetic Resonance
Technical Session #4: “Relaxation, it’s not just for weekends anymore”
Michele received a PhD in physical chemistry from UC Davis. Her work focused on using single-sided NMR to detect tomato paste spoilage. She is now in NIST’s Magnetic Imaging Group, working on low field NMR/MRI for industrial and medical applications
Rachel Martin
University of California, Irvine
Easy and reproducible construction of NMR transceiver coils using 3D printing
Technical Session #9: “Fields of Dreams, a new era of instrumentation”
materials”
Rachel Martin is a Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at University of California, Irvine. Her research group works on NMR instrumentation and methods development as well as biological applications. Website: probemonkey.com
Klas Meyer
BAM
ValidNMR Session #2 (Open Forum — Sli.do assisted): “What does ‘Quality’ mean to you?”
ValidNMR Session #6 (Open Forum — Sli.do assisted): “Open Q+A / Ask us anything”
Klas received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2017 for the work
on “High-pressure NMR spectroscopy” in gas mixtures and process applications. The experimental work
was performed in the Process Analytical Technology group of Michael Maiwald at Bundesanstalt für
Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM). After that he joined Magritek GmbH in Aachen as Application
Scientist for Benchtop NMR spectrometers. Since end of 2018 he returned to BAM responsible for the
research fields of quantitative NMR spectroscopy (qNMR) and process spectroscopy. Since 2020 he took
over the chair position of the ValidNMR group together with the co-chair John Edwards.
Luciano Mueller
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Utility of Solution-State NMR Structures in Drug Discovery
Ph. D: Natural Sciences ETH Zurich 1978 Post doctoral: Varian Associates 1978 Postdoctoral UC Berkeley, 1979 NMR Facility manager, Caltech 1980-1983 Staff scientist, Smith Kline Beckman, 1983-1989 Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1989 – present.
Eric Munson
Purdue University
Practical Applications of Solid-State NMR Analysis of Pharmaceuticals
Technical Session #8: “Ready, Pharma, ONE….!”
Dr. Eric Munson is the Dane O. Kildsig Chair and Head of the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University. His research program focuses on the characterization of pharmaceutical solids, with an emphasis on SSNMR spectroscopy.
Moon Nahm
University of Alabama at Birmingham
NMR is essential in our fight against pneumococci
I have been studying bacterial infections for 30+ years. My research has been focused on the bacterial polysaccharide capsules. Our studies also led us to find accurate ways to measure immune responses to pneumococcal vaccines
Benjamin Reiner
Dow Chemical
Non-Fourier NMR Techniques Optimized for Polymeric Materials
Technical Session #2: “NMR Developments for materials science and polymers applications”
Ben’s background is in organometallic synthesis and catalysis. He joined the NMR department at Dow Chemical in 2020. His research focuses on structural and reaction characterization of functional polymeric materials using non-Fourier NMR techniques.
April Sawvel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Technical Session #6: “Check out for the versility of NMR to investigate materials”
April Sawvel is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory specializing in the development of magnetic resonance methods to determine aging and degradation mechanisms of silicone elastomers.
Birk Schütz
Bruker BioSpin GmbH
Dan Sorensen
Health Canada
Setting standards: Revision of USP general chapters <761>/<1761>.
Dr. Sorensen is a GMP Inspector at Health Canada and volunteers on a USP Expert Panel (qNMR) as an individual expert—not a Government Liaison. His expressed opinions are personal and do not represent the legal positions or guidance of Health Canada.
Throughout his career as a pharmaceutical scientist, he focused on the applications of NMR for discovery, development and commercialization of natural products, antibiotics, anticancer drugs and other medicines. While working at McMaster University as an NMR Application Specialist and GMP Quality Manager, he facilitated the creation of a GMP-compliant NMR contract testing laboratory. He regards science as a profession that requires tacit knowledge to be shared through coaching, mentoring, workshops and communities of practice (e.g., ValidNMR).
Hannah Stone
GW Pharmaceuticals
Mechanistic studies in the oxidative and photodegradation of cannabinoids by insitu NMR analysis
Technical Session #7: “Sweating the small stuff – tales of impurities and degradants”
Hannah Stone is a Senior R&D Scientist at GW Pharmaceuticals in the UK. She has worked at GW for 4 years on a variety of synthetic and characterisation projects. She graduated with a Masters in Chemistry from Durham University in 2017.
Yongchao Su
Merck & Co, Inc.
19F Solid-state NMR Analysis of Pharmaceutical Materials
Technical Session #8: “Ready, Pharma, ONE….!”
Dr. Su is a Principal Scientist in Analytical R&D at Merck. He has contributed over 100 peer-reviewed papers on ssNMR studies of pharmaceutical, biophysical and material characterizations, and published patents on biological and chemical therapeutics.
Ljubica Tasic
UNICAMP - University of Campinas
Elucidating blood serum signatures of COVID-19 patients in Brazil using 1H-NMR
As Associate Professor at the University of Campinas, Ljubica leads a research group in Biological Chemistry whose interests are understanding the modified metabolic pathways in diseases, diseases molecular basis, and the use of NMR.
Amrit Venkatesh
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Technical Session #8: “Ready, Pharma, ONE….!”
MSc chemistry – Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India. 2013 PhD in physical chemistry – Prof. Aaron Rossini group, Iowa State University, USA. 2020 Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow – Prof. Lyndon Emsley group, EPFL, Switzerland. 2021
Deyun Wang
FDA
Technical Session #3: “Bring Me a Higher (Order) Structure”
Dr. Deyun Wang is from the FDA’s Northeast Medical Products Laboratory (NMPL). He obtained his Doctorate in Bioorganic Chemistry from New York University. He is currently charged with overseeing the NMR operations for NMPL.
Jeffery White
Oklahoma State University
Technical Session #2: “NMR Developments for materials science and polymers applications”
Dr. Jeffery L. White is the Professor and B.P. Chair, School of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University. Previously, Dr. White served as an Assistant and tenured Associate Professor at North Carolina State University.
Dennis Woertge
Procter and Gamble Service GmbH
Quantitative single sided NMR MOUSE T1 relaxometry using MPM
Technical Session #4: “Relaxation, it’s not just for weekends anymore”
External student at the TU Ilmenau, Germany Department of technical physics II/ polymer physics Master of science in Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt Germany