Congratulations to Stefano Menegatti on being awarded the ACS BIOT Young Investigator Award! The Division of Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award recognizes an outstanding young contributor to the field of biochemical technology and an active participant in the division programs.
He is being recognized for his groundbreaking studies of the mechanisms of peptide-protein biorecognition and his technological innovations in the field of affinity purifications of next-generation biotherapeutics.
Menegatti is an Associate Professor and Faculty Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering He is the co-founder of the North Carolina Viral Vector Initiative in Research and Learning (NC-VVIRAL) and the Chief Technology Officer of LigaTrap Technologies, a company commercializing affinity adsorbents for bioseparations. His main interests are in purification processes and analytical technologies dedicated to biological therapeutics. His group introduced the paradigm of “flow-through affinity chromatography” and a number of affinity ligands for the purification of proteins, viral vectors, and cells. His efforts on innovating biomanufacturing technologies have received several awards including the NSF CAREER award and the ALCOA Foundation Research Achievement Award.
This post was originally published in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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