September 2026
Rafia wins 3rd place at the Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) poster presentations. Congratulations Rafia!

August 2026
The lab hosted its first Chromatographic Approaches for Manufacturing Protein Biologics (CAMPBio) summer workshop series, where select undergraduates from across the country were exposed to an experimental and classroom-based training experience.

July 2026
Lauren presents a poster at the Deans Fellows Poster Presentations!

January 2026
Congratulations to Llian & Janani for publishing their paper titled “Integrating hybrid modeling and high throughput screening: A modular process development platform for flowthrough chromatography” in J. Chrom. A!

October 2025
The lab attends the International Symposium on Preparative and Process Chromatography (PREP)and learns about new research within the field. Janani and Francis both give talks, and Llian presents a poster.

September 2025
Janani wins 3rd place at the Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS) poster presentations. Congratulations Janani!

Congratulations to Rafia and Dulani for passing their Ph.D. qualifying exams, we look forward to your continued contributions and impact in the lab!

July 2025
Dr. Vecchiarello receives a prestigious NSF CAREER Award!
This five-year grant will support the cutting-edge research on designing peptide-coated surfaces that revolutionize the purification of protein-based drugs, making biomanufacturing faster, cleaner, and more efficient through a powerful combination of high-throughput screening and computational modeling. Congratulations to Dr. Vecchiarello, we are so excited to see the impact this research will have!

June 2025
Francis receives a 2025 GEM Fellowship Award. Congratulations Francis!

January 2025
Janani publishes her first paper titled “Defining operating regimes for partition coefficient measurements in protein chromatography”, in J. Chrom. A. This also marks the first publication of the group, congratulations Janani!

September 2024
Francis and Janani both pass their Ph.D. qualifying exams, congratulations guys! We are so proud of your hard work and can’t wait to see all the exciting research ahead!