News and Updates
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Shoili Banerjee wins Senior Researcher-Scholar Award
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
Aron Gyorgypal defends PhD & presents multiple invited talks!
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
Chundawat Elected to NIIMBL Technical Activities Committee
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
Chundawat Receives Award for Studying Glycosynthase Enzymes
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
DJ wins first place at poster competition!
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
Markus Hackl publishes his research work in PNAS
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 students back after completing exciting internship experiences!
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
Antonio De Chellis Awarded Prestigious PhD Fellowship
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
Dr. Chundawat to lead NIIMBL biomanufacturing team
Rutgers team, led by PI Chundawat, has been selected by the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) as part of the Institute’s Project Call 5.2. Chundawat-led team will develop … Read More
Congratulations to Aron Gyorgypal on developing an automated monitoring toolkit
Congratulations to my Ph.D. student (Aron Gyorgypal) on developing an automated monitoring toolkit and workflow that speeds up analysis for the production of glycosylated biologics. The technology will be made … Read More
Work from the Lab Featured on Analytical Chemistry Cover
Work from the Chundawat Lab on an integrated platform, N-GLYcanyzer, for rapid mAb glycosylation monitoring has been featured on the Analytical Chemistry cover. Book Link: Link Article Link: Link