Susan Wollowitz, PhD
WOLLOWITZ ASSOCIATES, LLC 2003 - present
Founder
CERUS CORPORATION 1992 - 2003
Various positions, including VP of Chemical Technology and VP of Shared Sciences, leading
and supporting discovery and product development of novel compounds for inactivation of
pathogens in blood products including chemistry, process development and scale-up, analytical
and bioanalytical chemistry, hematology, microbiology and regulatory affairs.
DOWELANCO (now DOWAGROSCIENCES) 1984 - 1992
Discovery Research Chemist, Novel crop protection materials targeted to key global markets –
muscarinic and nicotinic agonists and antagonists. Worked in close collaboration with
entomologists and insect biochemists.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY 1981 - 1984
Post-doctoral research associate, kinetics and mechanisms of Vitamin B12 catalyzed enzymatic
reactions
INSTITUT DE LA CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES NATURELLES – CNRS (FRANCE) 1980 - 1981
NSF-CNRS Young Scientist Exchange Fellow, chiral organometallic reagents, homogeneous
catalysis.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1980
B.A. Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974
Honors - New York State Regents Scholarship 1970-74
and Awards: - NSF-CNRS (France) Young Scientist Exchange Fellow, 1980-81
- Two Phase 1 SBIR grants, 1992 and 1993
- Consortium for Plasma Science grant, 1998
- Part of team receiving Discover Magazine’s Top Innovation
Award 2000
Affiliation: - American Chemical Society
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
- Parenteral Drug Association
