Chief Scientific Officer
Princeton Biochemicals Inc
Princeton
New Jersey
United States of America
Dr. Norberto Guzman is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Princeton Biochemicals Inc., Princeton, New Jersey ,U.S.A. Dr. Guzman received his B.Sc. degree in biochemistry from a Joint Undergraduate Program of the University of Concepcion and the University of Chile, Chile; M.Sc. degree in biochemistry from the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia, U.S.A.; and Ph.D. degree in biochemistry (protein biochemistry) from a Joint Graduate Program of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers. Dr. Guzman's expertise is primarily in biomedicine and biotechnology with emphasis in protein biochemistry and immunochemistry. At present, his main research interest is in the understanding of the function of newly formed and/or post-translational-modified proteins in inflammatory processes, and the finding of therapeutic agents, such as natural and synthetic proteins/peptides, aimed to alleviate chronic inflammatory diseases. For several years, Dr. Guzman has developed immunoaffinity-analytical separation instrumentation and methodologies for the quantification, identification and characterization of proteins and peptides of relevance to the clinical laboratory, pharmaceutical industry and food-nutraceutical industry (e.g. erythropoietin, antibodies, and collagen). He also has used multiple cross-linking methods to generate scaffold of collagen with other natural or synthetic polymers to generate collagen-based biomaterials for use in tissue engineering applications or microencapsulation technology. Dr. Guzman is the author or co-author of more than 130 scientific publications, including manuscripts, patents and book chapters. Dr. Guzman holds numerous worldwide patents on capillary electrophoresis and microchip technology and his accomplishments have been recognized by being the recipient of many national and international awards in science and technology innovation.