Three Phase Partitioning. Applications in Separation and Purification of Biological Molecules and Natural Products

Authors

Munishwar Nath Gupta Formerly post-doctoral positions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, University of Minnesota, USA, Lund University, Sweden, University of Technology of Compiegne, France. Dr. Munishwar Nath Gupta earned his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and completed post-doctoral positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), University of Minnesota (USA), Lund University (Sweden), and University of Technology of Compiegne (France). He has taught chemistry, biochemistry, and biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, between 1975-2016. He was awarded the National Science Talent fellowship (India) and Fellowships of National Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. He has edited three books on thermostability of enzymes, non-aqueous enzymology and affinity-based separation methods (published by Springer/Birkhauser). He was an Associate Editor of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation (Taylor and Francis) and founding and former editor-in-chief of Sustainable Chemical Processes (Springer). He's served on editorial boards of several national and international journals and acted as a consultant to Novozyme (Denmark), Dabur (India), and other international companies. His research interests include applied biocatalysis and interfaces of biochemistry with nanotechnology. Ipsita Roy Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), India. Dr. Ipsita Roy earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, completed a post-doctoral position at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and conducted an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship at the University of Bonn (Germany). She has been teaching biotechnology and biochemistry at the postgraduate level at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar, since 2005. Her research interests include stabilization of pharmaceutically important and disease-relevant proteins; aptamer technology; downstream processing of proteins.