Faculty
Nazmul Karim
Dr. M. Nazmul Karim
Chairman and Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas Tech University
6th and Canton
Mail Stop 3121
Lubbock, TX 79409-3121
(806) 742-3553
Personal Information:
Before joining the Department, Dr. Karim was a professor of chemical engineering at Colorado State University. He has been a visiting professor at Helsinki University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Osaka University and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Trained in process control and optimization theories, he has been involved in biotechnology research for the last twenty-two years. Examples of his recent research topics are the application of on-line model predictive control of recombinant fermentations (e.g. E coli, CHO cells) and the use of data based approaches such as Neural Networks and Principal Component Analysis, to classification, fault detection and identification of bioprocesses. Dr. Karim is also involved in research areas such as lignin biodegradation and recombinant fermentation for ethanol production from mixed substrates. His recent research activities involve regulation of apoptosis in mammalian cell culture, proteomic data-analysis for metabolic pathway modification, and effects of shear stress on t-PA protein production in CHO cells. Funding for his work has come from the National Science Foundation, USAID, the Department of Energy, and the Colorado Institute for Research in Biotechnology, and various industries. He is the director of the successful short course, "Advanced Industrial Bioprocessing," offered every year for the biotechnology industries.
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