Prof. Allan S Myerson

Professor of the Practice of Chemical Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Chemical Engineering

MIT Room: E19-502

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Crystallization from Solution with an Emphasis on Nucleation, Polymorphism, and Industrial Applications of Crystallization
Downstream Antibody Separation Technologies

Research Summary

Myerson is a world leader in the area of industrial crystallization and its applications in the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries. His work ranges from fundamental studies of nucleation, polymorphism and crystal-impurity interactions to the development of new crystallizaiton processes. Current projects involve:

(*) Study and control of nucleation using surface templating techniques
(*) Methods for the direct crystallization of organic molecular nanocrystals
(*) Continuous crystallization technologies and their application to pharmaceuticals and intermediates
(*) Control of polymorphism via molecular and surface structure
(*) Pharmaceutical Manufacturing


(summary updated 11/2011)

Recent Work