Dr. Fernando J. Muzzio is a distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. For the last 30 years, pharmaceutical product and process design has been his main research and educational focus, working on continuous manufacturing, powder mixing, powder flow, segregation, compression, mixing and flow of liquids and suspensions, capsule filling, tablet dissolution, and tablet coating. He is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters. He is a frequent participant at FDA events, and in 2010-2014 he was appointed a voting member of the FDA committee on Pharmaceutical Sciences and clinical pharmacology.
Fernando Muzzio is the director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems. Dr. Muzzio is also the director of the Rutgers/Janssen partnership in Advanced Manufacturing and the Principal Investigator of major FDA research awards focused on material properties, sensing, and process control in Continuous Manufacturing. Dr. Muzzio is also the chair elect of NIPTE.
Professor Muzzio is also the president of Integra Continuous Manufacturing Systems, a supplier of comprehensive consulting services in continuous manufacturing, ( www.integracms-pharma.com) and the Chief Scientific Officer of Acumen Biopharma.