John Chen has extensive experience in business development within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, currently holding key roles at Thar Process, Inc., Kinematica, Inc., Branal Scientific, and Logan Instruments Corp. since 2013. Chen's expertise includes developing large-scale CO2 extraction machines and specialized pharmaceutical testing instrumentation, such as dissolution and release rate testing systems. Previous positions include Product Specialist at Mandel Scientific Inc. and Business Development Manager at InterSciences, where responsibilities encompassed technical support, sales strategy development, and market expansion across North America. Chen holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology from the University of Toronto.
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Thar Process R&D to Scale-Up Solutions w/ Upcycled CO2 to Make Cleaner, Safer Remedies & Ingredients
US based Contract R&D & Process-Scale solution provider focused on sustainable purification / extraction with 15,000 ft2 of analytical R&D and scale-up labs plus 25,000 ft2 of cGMP, USDA Organic certified space. Additionally, Thar has both equipment and fabrication capabilities for sales to customers or in-house processing. Since 1990, Thar focuses on sustainable supercritical CO2-based processes primarily on natural product extraction/purification, chromatographic separations of synthetic chemistries including chiral compounds. Additionally, Thar solves problems for clients in sterilization, impregnation, lyophilization and remediation. Over our history, we have engineered/fabricated equipment or for companies like Pfizer, ADM, Nestle, Merck, Dupont, Novartis, Wuxi Apptec plus many small ingredients producers and local consumer brands. Thar has partnered with clients to develop sustainable industrial-scale applications for customers on 5 continents. Today, Thar operates multiple units for natural product toll processing in USA and designs, fabricates + implements automated supercritical fluid extraction / purification systems. Also known as SCFE or SFE, CO2 is a less expensive and more sustainable extraction solvent replacing hexane, ethanol and steam. With a technology footprint that includes CO2 with co-solvents and subcritical H2O continuous batch extraction, counter-current extraction / remediation to chromatographic purification and isolations (SFC), Thar is unmatched in expertise in executing green chemistry techniques from food to pharma.