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Office Hours with Graduate Alum in Residence Jean Tom *93 CBE
by GradFUTURES
A121 Engineering Quad
A121 Engineering Quad, Princeton University, United States
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Sign up for office hours with Alumni-in-Residence Jean Tom *93 CBE! Jean will be hosting office hours on the following Fridays from 2-4PM. Please email her directly jeantom@princeton.edu to schedule your appointment!
10/11/24, 10/18/24, 11/8/24, 11/15/24, 12/6/24, 1/10/25, 1/17/25
After a 38-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, Jean Tom has embarked on an academic career as a teaching faculty. She joined the Princeton faculty as a Professor of Practice in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in September 2024. Previously, she was the 2024 Brenton Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Jean recently retired from Bristol Myers Squibb, where she served as Executive Director of Development Engineering - Chemistry Process Development. In this role, she led a group of chemical engineers focused on developing chemical processes to synthesize small-molecule drug candidates for new therapeutics. Before joining BMS in 2006, Jean spent 19 years at Merck Research Laboratories. In her industrial role, Jean introduced new approaches to accelerate the generation of process knowledge needed at different stages of development and promoted pre-competitive collaboration to advance new technologies for developing new compounds.
As a 1993 Ph.D. graduate alumna, Jean is interested in helping Princeton students (both graduate and undergraduate) attain skills to help them be effective in the workplace. Her goal is to translate her experience into useful knowledge for students. Her area of interests includes the following:
• Pharmaceutical process development and crystallization processes
• Industrial examples applying fundamentals of chemical engineering and process safety.
• Leadership, team dynamics, communications styles and bias management concepts and application of these concepts to the technical and engineering work environment.
• The role of imposter phenomenon for women in engineering and science
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Jean Tom
Executive Director of Development Engineering, Chemistry Process Development at Bristol Myers Squibb
Jean Tom is the Executive Director of Development Engineering, Chemistry Process Development at Bristol Myers Squibb, where she leads a group of chemical engineers focused on development of chemical processes to synthesize small-molecule drug candidates for new therapeutics. Her team generates process knowledge through lab experimentation, modeling and data visualization, and scale-up activities to enable technology and process transfer to manufacturing. Prior to joining BMS in 2006, Jean spent 19 years at Merck Research Laboratories. During that time, she held positions overseeing process development, pilot plant operations and technology transfer, while contributing to new approaches to talent outreach, engagement, and development. She has had a role in 14 pharmaceutical products from Merck and BMS now in the market.
She received B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT. After several years in industry, Jean returned to academia and received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Princeton University. Jean is active in the AIChE(American Institute of Chemical Engineers) as a Fellow and recipient of the AIChE Industrial Leadership Award (2018), and in the NAE (National Academy of Engineering) to which she was elected to in 2019. She was a founding board member of the Enabling Technologies Consortium (ETC), a consortium of 14 pharmaceutical companies working in the pre-competitive space for technology development. She contributes to the chemical engineering community through her service to ABET, external advisory committees for several departments, AICHE and NAEcommittees, and through innovative STEM outreach programs. She is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE) and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Engineers at University of Texas at Austin. She is also proud parent of Princeton alums: Jeff ’18, and Keith ’22.