Divakar (PhD '97) returns to PSU to serve on IPAC!

Divakar Ramakrishnan returns to PSU to serve on Penn State's Chemical Engineering Department's IPAC (Industrial Partnership Advisory Committee). His PhD thesis in 1997 was on "Design principles for large-scale growth of root cultures in bioreactors". After graduating, he went onto work for Eli Lilly, attain a Harvard MBA, serve as founder on a biotech startup, scale-up Eli Lilly's European manufacturing, and now works in Cambridge overseeing a small Eli Lilly biotech project.                       Divakar circa 1997                                                     L-R: Sammy, Olga Vinogradova, Krishnan Sreenivas, Divakar                                                                                            Ramakrishnan, Wayne Curtis, Haonan Xu                                                                                             (and dawn redwood of course!)