• Director, National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing (NCTM)
  • Visiting Professor of Practice, Chemical Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University – 2010
  • M.A., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University - 2008
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, UCLA - 2006

Research Interests

    • Protein purification
    • Downstream processing
    • Biomanufacturing process development and optimization

Awards & Honors

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow - 2007

Selected Publications

  • Gilleskie, G., Reeves, B., van Zanten, J., Balchunas, J., and Carbonell, R. 2016. A “Life Cycle” Approach to Education and Training for the Biopharmaceutical Industry. Chemical Engineering Education, 50(3):193-201.
  • Gilleskie, G., Reeves, B. 2014. From Process Development to Manufacturing: Lab-intensive Courses in Downstream Bioprocessing. Chemical Engineering Education, 48(2):79-89.
  • Fong, B., Wood, D. 2010. Expression and purification of ELP-intein-tagged target proteins in high cell density E. coli fermentation. Microbial Cell Factories, 9:77.
  • Fong, B.*, Gillies, A.*, LeRoy, G., Lee, K., Westblade, L., and Wood, D. 2010. Purification of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase by a self-cleaving elastin-like polypeptide tag. Protein Science, 19(6): 1243-1252.
  • Fong, B., Wu, W., and Wood, D. 2010. The potential role of self-cleaving purification tags in commercial-scale processes. Trends in Biotechnology, 28(5): 272-279.
  • Fong, B.*, Wu, W.*, and Wood, D. 2009. Optimization of ELP-intein mediated protein purification by salt substitution. Protein Expression and Purification, 66: 198-202.
  • Wu, W., Fong, B., Gillies, A., and Wood, D. 2009. Recombinant protein purification by self-cleaving elastin-like polypeptide fusion tag. Current Protocols in Protein Chemistry. 58:26.4.1-26.4.17.