Dr. Allegrezza has thirty six years R&D experience in membrane industry with Millipore, Koch Membrane  Systems, and Albany International. While with these firms he conducted R&D as a senior scientist and as  a group manager on composite reverse osmosis membranes, ultrafiltration membranes, including the  development a new form of ultrafiltration membrane (composite UF) for the biotech industry, and  conducted research on a variety of other membrane products. This work involved development of  manufacturing processes to control membrane properties, and methods of structure and property  characterization. He has several US Patents in the field. He received the Jack Bush award, Millipore’s  highest technical award for his distinguished technical achievements in the development of composite  ultrafiltration membranes for virus removal in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, which has resulted in  tens of millions dollars in sales to Millipore and is still being sold. Dr. Allegrezza was Treasurer and a  member of the Board of Directors of the North American Membrane Society for nine years. He served a  member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Membrane Applied Science and Technology at the  University of Colorado and New Jersey Institute of Technology for seven years, serving as Chair for two  years. Dr. Allegrezza has been a registered US Patent Agent since 1997 and has drafted patent  applications for a wide variety of technical fields as well as Patent Office Action responses. Dr. Allegrezza   

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