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North Haven, Ct

Design, synthesis and evaluation of biomaterials for use as adhesives, sealants and hemostats in medical device industry.• Screened several polysaccharide based materials for the identification of promising hemostatic materials and surgical adhesives.• Identified of promising candidates and developed their formulations as flowable hemostats. • Developed experimental protocols for formulation testing in acute laboratory setting.• Chemically modified promising candidates for structure-performance evaluations.• Evaluated sterilization effects on material’s performance.• Selected, sourced and evaluated applicators for efficient hemostat formulations delivery.• Synthesized of various intermediate and target compounds to support ongoing projects.• Identified hemostatic and antifibrinolytic agents and their incorporation in sealants formulation to improve their hemostatic effects.• Designed and synthesized multi-arm polyethylene glycol systems for evaluation in adhesives and sealant compositions.Development of collagen based formulations incorporating selected agents to improve wound healing and soft tissue regeneration after hernia repair.• Developed prototype and evaluated of their performance in cell culture.

North Haven, Ct

Design, synthesis and evaluation of functionalized polymeric and oligomeric materials for the development of surgical adhesives and sealants.• Synthesized of various polyethyleneglycol ester isocyanate systems for incorporation in adhesive formulations and their performance evaluation..

Rochester, New York Area

Team Leader and Development Chemist for the commercialization of a chemical intended for use as a toner in a medical imaging system.• Shortened the synthetic sequence provided by the Research and Development group by one step, providing a Lower Unit Manufacturing Cost.• Led and organized regular team meetings involving representatives from Health, Safety and Environment, Engineering, Purchasing, Quality, Production and Health Imaging to discuss progress of project.

Rochester, Ny

Design and Synthesis of chemical compounds of interest in liquid crystal displays and color photographic applications.• Prepared Chiral Dopants that showed increased and desirable twisting powers for the application in study. • Prepared liquid crystal-like molecules used in the functionalization of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) for viscosity control of liquid crystal solutions and delivered several samples to the team polymer chemist for polyvinyl alcohol functionalization experiments.• Developed a high yielding and convergent synthesis of those reagents, potentially leading to lower Production Cost of the chemicals.• Prepared and provided initial samples of designed compounds for evaluation as ionic liquid crystal for incorporation in a compensation film for liquid crystal displays. • Synthesized and evaluated new candidates designed for use as Infrared dye forming couplers for data incorporation into imaging materials. • Prepared several azamethine dyes from relevant potential couplers in internal chemical library and recorded their solution UV spectra to evaluate their performance as suitable Infrared dyes.• Synthesized three classes of potential Red dye forming photographic couplers for the preparation of a photographic paper with increased Color Gamut; two of which showed promise for the desired applications.• Two US patents applications were filed and granted based on this work.• Synthesis of new pyrazolo[1,5-b]-1,2,4-triazoles for structure property relationship studies

Rochester, New York Area

Design and Synthesis of new Heterocyclic compounds for use as Color forming couplers in photographic products.• Prepared of a new type of heterocycle substituted pyrazolo[1,5-c]-1,2,4-triazole derivatives that were of interest in photographic industry as well as in the hair dyeing industry.• Two US patents applications were filed and granted based on this work.• Prepared two other classes of Heterocyclic derivatives that were predicted to be interesting magenta coupler candidates.

Post-Doc, Medicinal Chemistry

Ph.D., Chemistry

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