Alumni Spotlight: Stephanie A. Parker, Ph.D. 2015

Stephanie Parker

At Cornell Stephanie conducted research in Dr. Carl Batt’s lab focusing on protein engineering for targeted cancer therapeutics. Following graduation, Dr. Parker moved back to home to sunny Southern California. She is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on a joint project between the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, Calif., and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical of Fremont, Calif., using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model biopharmaceutical unit operations. This project is motivated by the desire to modernize the antibody manufacturing process. Currently the biopharmaceutical industry produces products in batch mode, however they are moving to continuous operations is the future. Specifically, Dr. Parker is designing prototypes for continuous unit operations, utilizing CFD to characterize the designs, and validating designs with experimental data.

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