Professor Fernando J. Muzzio, Rutgers University

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Professor Fernando J. Muzzio

Fernando Muzzio is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rutgers University. For the last 28 years, pharmaceutical product and process design has been Professor Muzzio’s main research and educational focus. His research interests comprise continuous manufacturing, powder mixing, powder flow, segregation, compression, mixing and flow of liquids and suspensions, capsule filling, tablet dissolution, and tablet coating. He is a frequent advisor and lecturer at FDA events and in recent years has been the recipient of some of their largest academic grants.  Prior to that, from 2010-2015 he was a voting member of the FDA committee on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacology.

Professor Fernando Muzzio is also the director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS). The Center focuses on pharmaceutical product and process design, with special emphasis on continuous manufacturing, particle engineering, and personalized medicine. C-SOPS has been a major contributor to continuous manufacturing approaches now being advocated by the FDA and regulators worldwide and which is now being adopted across the industry.