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Kelvin H. Lee

Kelvin H. Lee is the director of the Manufacturing USA National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), and he is the Gore Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He previously served as director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. He received a BSE in chemical engineering from Princeton and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Caltech.

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Mind the Gap: Bridging the ‘Valley of Death’ for U.S. Biomanufacturing

January 14, 2020

Biopharmaceutical manufacturing uses living cells to produce therapies that treat diseases like cancer, diabetes and autoimmune disorders. Manufacturing

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