Graduate NIH Training in BiotechnologyIndustrial InternshipsAll students in the training program (except those who worked in industry prior to joining the program) are required to participate in industrial internships of about three months in duration. The internships will enhance students’ knowledge of careers in industry, broaden their versatility, and illuminate and refine their appreciation of industrial and business practice. Students completing industrial internships will be required to present a short seminar sharing their research and working experience with the program faculty and students. The first seminar was held on April 5, 2006.
Selected Industrial Internship Participants Jeff Savard Bristol Myers Squibb Syracuse, NY 06/04/07 - 08/10/07 Jeff's work centered on exploring the source of creation for a subset of protein aggregates in mammalian cell culture, and the ability of the current purification scheme to clear this aggregate. He was responsible for upstream production of this protein via mammalian cell culture as well as its subsequent downstream chromatographic purification.
Andy Kim Genentech San Francisco, CA 06/04/07 - 09/28/07 Andy will be working in the Process Sciences Department. More specifically, he will use an underused technique, analytical ultracentrifugation, to determine absorptivities and extinction coefficients for various proteins.
Azadeh Alikhani ICx-Agentase Pittsburgh, PA 03/26/07 - 06/29/07 Azadeh will be working on a project to develop a new efficient process for protein modification. She will gain experience in modifying proteins with initiators, polymers and then characterize the modified proteins. She will also demonstrate the feasibility of improved technology to produce high yields of modified proteins and enzymes in economically feasible manner.
Kyle G. Grant Cambrex Corporation Walkersville, MD 9/26/05 – 11/23/05 Kyle worked on cryopreservation of primary human cell lines in well plates. Some of the important parameters were surface area/volume ratios and concentration of agarose in the overlay of the cells in plates. According to the marketing department within Cambrex the idea of selling cells preserved in a well format represents a large market.
John Stankus Vital Engineering, affiliated with the Artificial Heart Program, UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh, PA May 2005 – September 2005 John implemented and provided advanced technical support for ventricular assist devices and intra-aortic balloon pumps for cardiac patients.
Sara Wargo CellSeed. Inc. Tokyo, Japan October 2005 - December 2005 Ms. Wargo participated in development of the technology of cell sheeting engineering.
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