Faraz Harsini, Msc, Phd, Dipaclm Email & Phone Number

I am the founder and CEO of Allied Scholars for Animal Protection (ASAP), a nonprofit that helps students to advocate for human and nonhuman animals in the most sustainable and effective manner. If you are a student and need support please contact me: www.AlliedScholars.orgI am also a Bioprocessing Senior Scientist at the Good Food Institute, focusing on technical and scientific challenges facing scaling up cultivated meat.Previously I worked as a Process Development Lead and R&D scientist in pharmaceutical companies. I led pilot studies, prepared and developed drugs for pre clinical and clinical trials, helped with preparing Investigational New Drug (IND), led a mass spectrometry facility for protein characterization, and led projects involving protein expression using mammalian and bacterial systems.My PhD research was biophysical characterization of skeletal muscle cell repair mechanism in a molecular level. In order to study the physiology of muscle proteins, I gained experience in molecular biology, protein engineering, protein expression, isolation, and purification. I also learned many assays to study protein-ligand or protein-membrane interactions, and many other fluorescent and microscopy techniques. Structural biology is another focus of my research and hence I routinely analyze structure of proteins by X-ray crystallography, NMR, or other techniques. My Master degree in Biotechnology was related to biochemistry and cancer cell biology. Hence, I have experience in mammalian cell culture as I studied the anti cancer effects of a new drug and its synergistic effects in combination with other chemo, against several types of cancer (in vitro). My research has never involved animal experimentation. I also obtained my BSc degree in Chemical Engineering, with two concentrations: Process Design and Biotechnology. I have also publications related to nanobiotechnology and biofuel production, and have experience operating bioreactors. My goal is to abolish speciesism, which is what encapsulates all my activities!

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