Alistair Hurst
Business Development Director (Global) at emp Biotech
Alistair Hurst is the General Manager for emp BIOTECH in the USA and Business Development Director (Global). His career spans across 30 years and he has worked in the biotech and immunodiagnostic sectors across the globe. He has combined his experiences from chemical engineering and classical inorganic chemistry so as to be in a position to provide qualified advice to organisations at any stage of their development.
Following a successful career in distribution, he joined emp BIOTECH in 2013 to assist in the transition of the company from being a supplier to academia and small research organisations to key supplier status for major international biopharma companies – and today emp BIOTECH is a critical component supplier to organisations that are closely involved in COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics.
He has developed several products from initial idea to market launch – the latest being SMART Chromatography™, which has been successfully used for applications ranging from recovery of high value components from waste streams, purification of biomolecules from plant and dairy derived sources, as well as the primary purification of recombinantly produced biomolecules. More recently there has been interest in using this technology platform for purification from fungal and other cell systems and even within the “cell-based foods” sector (cultivated meat/seafood etc.).


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