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Nam Sun Wang Associate Professor Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering Graduate Program A. James Clark School of Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-2111

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A picture seems appropriate here. This is actually my wife's favorite -- a much better picture than myself. To see the real me, go to my page in the Chemical Engineering Deparment's brochure.

Recent Teaching Duties

ENCH250	Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering
ENCH333	Chemical Engineering Seminar
ENCH482	Biochemical Engineering
ENCH485	Biochemical Engineering Laboratory
ENCH648B	Advanced Biochemical Engineering
ENCH620	Methods of Engineering Analysis
ENES489Q	Biotechnology and Bioproduction
ENPM808B	Chemical and Biological Detection

Research

Research Interests

Biochemical/Bioprocess Engineering
- Microbial Fermentation
- Insect/Mammalian Cell Culture, Tissue Culture
- Bioseparation
- Modeling
Biotechnology/Bioengineering
- Protein/Enzyme Immobilization
- Drug Delivery
- Angiogenesis
On-Line Chemical/Biochemical Process Monitoring
- NIR
- Fluorescence
- Light Scattering
Biosensor
- Protein Array, Antibody-Antigen Interaction
- DNA-DNA hybridization

Current Graduate Research Supervision

	Paul Shriner Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Cloning, Secretion, and Growth Kinetics of a Thermophilic Fungal Phytase in E. coli. E-Mail: shriner.paul@epamail.epa.gov
	Yingli Fu Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Neovascularization in the Eye: Drugs' Effect on Integrin Expression. E-Mail: fyl@wam.umd.edu
	Patricia Amalia Gonzales Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Proteomic Analysis of Urinary Exosomes & Antibody Microarrays for Diagnosis of Urinary Diseases. E-Mail: pag@wam.umd.edu
	Quanzeng Wang Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: BioMethanol Conversion from Sugar Beet with Enzymes Modified via Directed Evolution. E-Mail: quanzeng_wang@yahoo.com
	Stephanie Heekyong Kim Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Ocular Drug Delivery and In Vivo Monitoring with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). E-Mail: hkim18@umd.edu
	Stefanie Ellen Brady M.S. Candidate Thesis: Continuous Feed Control Strategy for Monoclonal Antibody Production from Mouse Cell Lines E-Mail: stefaniebrady@yahoo.com
	Jonghoon Choi Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Silicon Nanocrystals for Biological Assays and Drug Delivery. E-Mail: myh2u@umd.edu
	Susan Shu-Hsun Lee M.S. Candidate Thesis: Transscleral Ocular Drug Delivery to the Vitreous. E-Mail: leesus@nei.nih.gov
	Joyce Catherine Breger M.S. Candidate Thesis: Cell Therapy for Metabolic Diseases: Delivery of Insulin with Islet Cells Immobilized in Alginate. E-Mail: jbreger@umd.edu
	Kunshan Sun Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Understanding Retinal Physiology and Diseases through Apoptosis in Retinal Pigment Epithelium. E-Mail: kunshan@umd.edu
	Jeffrey Adijanto Ph.D. Candidate Thesis: Modulation of Proteins Responsible for Macular Degeneration via RNA Interference. E-Mail: jadijant@umd.edu

Past Graduate Research Theses Supervised

Allan Emerson David, Ph.D.

Immobilization of Enzymes on Nanoporous Silica Composites.

Hyuncheol Kim, Ph.D. (Movie)

Study of Ocular Transport of Drugs Released from a Sustained Release Device.

Sirintip Catithammanit, Ph.D. (Movie)

Production and Secretion of Urease from Thermophilic Bacillus sp. #408.

Hyuncheol Kim, M.S. (Movie)

Methods to Study Controlled Drug Release in the Vitreous Humor.

Ibrahim Sei, Ph.D. (Movie)

Spectroscopy-Based Chemical Process Monitoring.

Cheng-Chung Chou, Ph.D. (Movie)

Virus Production in an Insect Cell Culture for Biological Insect Control.

Sylvia Reshelle Francis, M.S.

The Use of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Monitor a Dry Powder Mixture and Define an Index of Mixing.

Sigfrido Hernandez, M.S.

Use of Oscillator Load Pull Technology to Measure Moisture Accumulation in Adsorbents.

Paul Shriner, M.S.

Purification of a Urease from a Thermophile Using a Reversible Inhibitor as an Affinity Ligand.

Anne Lin, M.S.

Simultaneous Quantification of Several Constituents in Insect Cell Culture Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.

Julie Lin, M.S. (Movie)

A Comparative Study on the Different Aspects of the Fiber Optic Biosensor to Improve Its Performance: Immobilization Methods, Fiber Geometry, and Fiber Regeneration.