Ramesh Chintala has received his PhD in Chemistry from University of Madras, India (1997). He is currently an Associate Principal Scientist supporting vaccine formulation and drug product development within Vaccine Bioprocess R&D at Merck & Co., Inc, West Point, PA, USA. He has previously held positions at Enzon Pharmaceuticals working on Pegylation of proteins, downstream processing and analytical characterization. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (Kyoto, Japan) and later moved to Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) for his second Postdoctoral fellowship. His areas of expertise include biologics and vaccine/adjuvant formulation development that employs the application of material sparing methods and surface characterization of pharmaceutical materials. He has several patents and publications in peer reviewed journals. Ramesh Chintala has received his PhD in Chemistry from University of Madras, India (1997). He is currently an Associate Principal Scientist supporting vaccine formulation and drug product development within Vaccine Bioprocess R&D at Merck & Co., Inc, West Point, PA, USA. He has previously held positions at Enzon Pharmaceuticals working on Pegylation of proteins, downstream processing and analytical characterization. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University (Kyoto, Japan) and later moved to Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) for his second Postdoctoral fellowship. His areas of expertise include biologics and vaccine/adjuvant formulation development that employs the application of material sparing methods and surface characterization of pharmaceutical materials. He has several patents and publications in peer reviewed journals.

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