April 17, 2008
Chao Center quality assurance director appointed to U.S. Pharmacopeia Expert Committee
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Stowell is the Chao Center's quality assurance director and an adjunct assistant professor in Purdue University's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He taught at the university for more than 20 years. He was responsible for the undergraduate teaching laboratories in the school for organic, analytical and the integrated laboratory series, as well as writing the laboratory manuals used in those courses. Stowell received his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of California at Davis.
The Chao Center is located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Ind.
About U.S. Pharmacopeia
The U.S. Pharmacopeia is the official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other health-care products manufactured and sold in the United States. USP sets standards for the quality of these products; these standards, recognized in more than 130 countries, have been helping to ensure good pharmaceutical care for people throughout the world for more than 185 years. This independent, science-based public health organization is a self-sustaining and not-for-profit organization. It is funded through revenues from the sale of products, services, and publications that help to ensure good pharmaceutical care.
About the Chao Center
The Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy & Contract Manufacturing (https://www.chaocenter.com) opened in 2005 and is an affiliate of Purdue University (https://www.purdue.edu) and the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Purdue. Initiated through a donation to the school from alumni Allen Chao, Ph.D., and his wife, Lee Hwa-Chao, the center is designed to provide a means to educate students in current good manufacturing practices (cGMP), provide pharmaceutical services to the pharmaceutical industry and provide an environment for Purdue faculty to conduct research in a cGMP facility. The center is located in Purdue Research Park where 140 businesses, of which more than 90 are high-tech, employ more than 2,900 people.
About Purdue Research Park
The 725-acre Purdue Research Park (https://www.purdueresearchpark.com) has the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country. The park is home to more than 140 companies. About 90 of these firms are technology-related and another 39 are incubator businesses. The park was ranked No. 1 in 2004 for university- affiliated research parks and received the 2005 Outstanding Commercialization Award, both from the Association of University Research Parks. The park's companies also have received numerous recognitions, including a 2006 MIRA Award: Innovation of the Year for Purdue Research Park/Quadraspec Inc. and a 2005 CoreNet Global Innovators Award finalist. The Purdue Research Park is part of the Purdue Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit foundation created to assist Purdue University in the area of economic development. In addition to the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, the foundation has established or is currently constructing technology parks in other locations around Indiana, including Merrillville, New Albany and Indianapolis.To the Purdue Research Park, https://www.purdueresearchpark.com
Purdue Research Foundation and Chao Center contact: Cynthia Sequin, (765) 494-4192, (765) 413-6031 (mobile), casequin@prf.org