ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Nitin Rathore would like to thank Cylia Chen and Oscar Gonzalez of Amgen, Inc. for their support in conducting these studies
and Wenchang Ji, Erwin Freund, and Ed Walls for review and useful feedback. Arnold McCauley would like to thank Sekhar Kanapuram,
Hyo Jin Lee, Alexis Leuras, Lyanne Wong, and Rahul Rajan, all from Amgen Inc., for providing data, editing the manuscript,
and helpful discussions.
Satish K. Singh, PhD, is a research fellow at Pfizer Inc., global biologics, Chesterfield, MO, Nitin Rathore, PhD, is senior scientist in process development and Arnold McAuley, PhD, is scientist in formulation and analytical research, both at Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA. Anurag S. Rathore, PhD, is a consultant, Biotech CMC Issues and a faculty member in the department of chemical ?engineering at the Indian Institute
of Technology, Delhi, India, asrathore@biotechcmz.com
Rathore is also a member of BioPharm International's editorial advisory board.
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