Shishir P. Chundawat

Congratulations to Shoili Banerjee on being awarded the Rutgers CBE Department Senior Researcher-Scholar Award. Dr. Chundawat had the pleasure of presenting this award to Shoili at the annual CBE Awards & … Read More

Congratulations to Aron Gyorgypal on successfully defending his PhD dissertation this month. Aron’s PhD was focussed on development of real-time N-glycosylation monitoring tools to enable advanced biologics manufacturing. See tweet … Read More

Dr. Chundawat has been elected by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) Technical Activities Committee for a 1 year period starting in March 2023. The Technical Activities Committee … Read More

Dr. Chundawat has received a sub-award from the University of Michigan (sponsored by the National Science Foundation) to engineer and characterize novel glycosynthase enzymes involved in synthesis of prebiotic human … Read More

Congratulations to DJ (Dharanidaran Jayachandran) on winning first place at the Rutgers BME annual research symposium today for his work on engineering membrane reconstituted glycosyl transferases for polysaccharides biosynthesis. Here is a … Read More

PhD student Markus Hackl from the Chundawat group has published a research paper titled ‘Acoustic force spectroscopy reveals subtle differences in cellulose unbinding behavior of carbohydrate-binding modules‘ in PNAS journal this week. … Read More

PhD student Dharanidaran Jayachandran (DJ) and Aron Gyorgypal spent their summer this year completing exciting research as part of their internship training experiences. DJ was a summer research intern at … Read More

Congratulations to Antonio De Chellis on being selected as a predoctoral fellow in the Rutgers PhD Training Program in Biotechnology (https://biotechnology.rutgers.edu). He completed his MS thesis defense and PhD preliminary examination … Read More