Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University
For the last 27 years, pharmaceutical product and process design has been Professor Muzzio’s main research and educational focus, with emphasis on continuous manufacturing, powder mixing, powder flow, segregation, compression, mixing and flow of liquids and suspensions, capsule filling, tablet dissolution, and tablet coating. He is the author of 280 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is a frequent participant at FDA events, and in 2010-2014 he was appointed a voting member of the FDA committee on Pharmaceutical Sciences and clinical pharmacology.
Fernando Muzzio is also the director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems. The center focuses on pharmaceutical product and process design, with special emphasis on continuous manufacturing, particle engineering, and personalized medicine. Dr. Muzzio is also the director of the Rutgers/Janssen partnership in Advanced Manufacturing and the Principal Investigator of a major FDA research award focused on material properties sensing and process control in Continuous Manufacturing.
Professor Muzzio is also the co-founder of Acumen Biopharma, a specialty consulting firm focused on pharmaceutical IP litigation, and the president of Integra Continuous Manufacturing Systems, a supplier of comprehensive consulting services in continuous manufacturing.