Stefano Menegatti

Associate Professor at North Carolina State University

Speaker

Stefano Menegatti is associate professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University. His team focuses on biorecognition phenomena and engineering of synthetic ligands for biological separations, biosensors, and regenerative medicine applications. Together with Mike Daniele at NC State University, Stef co-founded the North Carolina Viral Vector Initiative in Research and Learning (NC-VVIRAL, https://vviral.ncsu.edu/), a consortium of academic, industrial, and non-profit institutes members whose collective mission is to support biotech and biopharma industries with novel technologies and products in the gene-editing and gene-and-cell-therapy fields. Stef's collaborations with academia and industry span across 3 continents, and have resulted in the adoption of technologies utilized for producing plasma proteins, recombinant therapies, and viral vectors for gene therapy. In 2015, Stef co-founded LigaTrap, a company marketing affinity resins for biological separations, where he now serves as Chief Technology Officer