Michael B HicksDr. Michael Hicks has over 20 years of pharmaceutical research experience. Dr. Hicks started in Analytical Research and Development in 1989 at Merck, received his PhD from Seton Hall University in 1997. He taught an Advanced Biomedical Engineering Grduate Laboratory at the Stevens Institute of Technology as adjunct faculty for ten years. He served as the 2017 Program Director for the Eastern Analytical Symposium and is an affiliate member of the EAS Board of Directors. He leads the Analytical Chemistry sub team of the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Roundtable for the ACS Green Chemistry Initiative Global Consortium. He is currently in the Analytical Chemistry and Enabling Technologies group in the Analytical R & D Department at Merck Research Labs in Rahway NJ specializing in separations, particularly in supercritical fluid chromatography as well as other large molecule method like size exclusion with multi-angle light scattering. Read More Read Less