Eugene Sun

Field Application Scientist, Purification at Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Eugene Sun is the Field Application Scientist for Greater Boston and regions within New England and is responsible for providing technical support for POROS and CaptureSelect chromatography resins to various process development customers in the gene therapy, cell therapy, nucleic acid, and antibody space. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher Scientific Bioproduction Group in 2021, Eugene supported Amgen's Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies group in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was responsible for the development, characterization, and scale-up support of downstream processes to enable commercial advancement of programs from clinical trials to marketing application.

Prior to that, Eugene started his career supporting MedImmune/AstraZeneca's early drug discovery / pre-clinical pipeline down in Maryland as a member of the Purification Process Sciences department. Eugene has over 10 years of extensive bench-scale experience developing both early and late-stage purification processes across all downstream unit operations for monoclonal antibodies, various formats of bispecific antibodies such as Bispecific T-Cell engagers (BiTEs), and biosimilar programs. Eugene earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Music from Bowdoin College.