Printer FriendlyCarl W. Lawton, Ph.D.
Dr. Carl W. Lawton is director of the Massachusetts BioManufacturing Center (MBMC) and associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UMASS Lowell.
As director of the MBMC, Dr. Lawton is responsible for overseeing the coordination and completion of process development client services including expression development, fermentation and cell culture development, downstream processing, process optimization and characterization. Dr. Lawton works closely with companies on the verge of biopharmaceutical production to give them the opportunity to utilize the Center’s services to economically address staffing needs and learning curve constraints and to optimize time to market.
Dr. Lawton creates and teaches customized training programs for biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce as well as advising and teaching undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of chemical and biochemical engineering and other fields. He also is responsible for developing and maintaining an applied research program which focuses on technological advances to improve the quality, cost and productivity of large-scale biomanufacturing production.
Before joining UMASS Lowell and creating the MBMC, Dr. Lawton was a bioengineering process consultant to companies on both the east and west US coasts and in
Robert D. Lynch, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert D. Lynch is the MBMC director of Cell Biology and Biochemistry and a research professor at UMASS Lowell. Dr. Lynch currently oversees the mammalian cell culture operations of the MBMC and applies his expertise in cell culture and selective media design for increased protein production.
Before joining UMASS Lowell, Dr. Lynch received his M.S. and Sc.D in nutrition from
Donato B. Vespa, Ph.D.
Dr. Donato B. Vespa is the MBMC laboratory manager with over seven years experience in recombinant protein process development. He is responsible for coordination and completion of client projects that include microbial fermentations, cell culture, protein purification and cGLP production. Don also trains and supervises laboratory technicians in various techniques including electrophoresis, HPLC and spectrophotometric analysis.
Before working with Dr. Lawton, Don worked for over five years with the Center for Chronic Disease Control performing in vivo and in vitro studies of drug substances and creating standard operating procedures (SOPs) for chemical analysis at the Center.