Ashutosh Sharma is senior engineer and Anurag S. Rathore, PhD, is a director of process development at Amgen,Inc.,Thousand Oaks,CA, 805.447.4491, arathore@amgen.com Anurag Rathore is also a member of BioPharm International's editorial advisory board. Sean Anderson is a graduate student at the chemical and biomolecular engineering department,University of California at Los Angeles, Los
Angeles,CA.
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