very similar to brewing beer, the conventional technology what you would do is take a cell and

you would have a gene is capable of producing a protein product and you would insert that clone

into the cell and then scale up the process by which I mean growing it in larger and larger vats

and then go through an elaborate procedure of recovering the product, the gene product that's being

expressed by the cells and this is something that's basic biology you and I are doing it all

the time we have our DNA instructions in our nucleus and all the proteins that make us up are

basically constantly being expressed so it's something that is fundamental to biology and

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now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. I have Govind Rao, he's a chemical and biochemical

engineering professor at University of Maryland and we're going to talk about his work about what's

called biologic medications on demand. So Govind, thank you so much for coming. Thank you for

having me Richard and I'm at the Baltimore County campus and I also run the Center for Advanced

Sensor Technology here. Okay, excellent. Tell me a bit about your background and then I want to

talk about the research that you're doing right now. So I'm a chemical engineer by training and then

more specialized into what's called biochemical engineering and my research has to do with how you

manufacture protein based therapeutics from the traditional fermentation and cell culture approach,

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