Chemical engineering fundamentals are frequently used to design, understand, model, and execute processes for the biopharmaceutical industry. Oxygen transfer in bioreactors, transport across ultrafiltration membranes, and diffusion of proteins into porous chromatography media are just a few of the many examples in which basic chemical engineering principles are central to bioprocess operations. As a result, many biopharmaceutical companies hire candidates with chemical engineering backgrounds, as these candidates possess a unique understanding of both the chemistry and engineering principles involved in the complex unit operations that comprise a biopharmaceutical process. Highly skilled professionals are needed by the industry as expectations for the quality of these injectable drugs is high. Chemical engineers are well positioned to fill a variety of roles, in areas including manufacturing, process development, process engineering, manufacturing sciences, technology transfer, and validation.
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