Books By Jaan A. Pesti, Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid, Rajappa Vaidyanathan - Author

Jaan A. Pesti was born on Long Island, NY in 1954. He received his Bachelor's degree from Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY in 1976 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Columbia University in the laboratories of Prof. Thomas Katz in 1981. Following postdoctoral research in synthetic organic chemistry at University of California, Berkeley from 1981-1983, he joined the staff of Dupont's Medical Products Division in Wilmington, DE and Deepwater, NJ, conducting research in process development from bench scale to pilot plant manufacture. He later transitioned to Dupont Merck Pharmaceuticals, Dupont Pharmaceuticals, and joined Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals in 2001. He retired from BMS in 2013 after 30 years of service credited, but has worked for NAL Pharma and Gelest, Inc., and currently is part of PRG, Inc. and EnginZyme AB. His career has focused on the process development of potential drugs and medical devices, including contributions to the processes to manufacture the marketed