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Dr. Gary Gilleskie, Teaching Associate Professor with BTEC, is responsible for courses focused on downstream production of biopharmaceuticals. Dr. Gilleskie has more than 15 years of industrial experience in recovery and purification operations in both the chemical and biopharmaceutical industries.

This experience comes from working for such companies as Bayer, in their plasma fractionation business unit, and Diosynth, a contract manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals. While at Diosynth, he managed downstream process development and cGMP manufacturing groups. Dr. Gilleskie is currrently developing and teaching courses covering the design and execution of downstream bioprocessing steps such as homogenization, centrifugation, chromatography, and tangential flow filtration. The courses provide both a conceptual framework and hands-on training in downstream operations, with an emphasis on cGMP operation. Dr. Gilleskie received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota.