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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.

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.
• 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.

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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