NOW: Zach is currently at Global Regulatory Affairs: Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls PhD Fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, MA. As a member of the GRA CMC team, Zach supports new and existing drug substances and drug products by preparing and maintaining regulatory submission documentation needed to support ongoing clinical activities. To support ongoing clinical activities, Zach monitors new guidance documents for health authorities, communicates with stakeholders regarding process changes, and creates and monitors timelines for future submissions. To support CMC submissions to global health authorities, Zach works with cross-functional teams to ensure that drug substances and products are manufactured consistently, of high quality, and follow regulations.

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THEN: Zach grew up in Windham, NH and went to Merrimack College for B. Sci. in Biochemistry. There, he worked with Dr. Jimmy Franco (no, not the actor!) on the incorporation of an azobenzene derivative into nylon for the synthesis of a photoactive muscle mimic. Zach came to UNH in 2019 to pursue his Ph.D. and joined the Tsavalas group in 2020. In addition to his collection of yellow ducks, Zach kept us all organized in the lab and was our "go to" person for practically everything that the rest of us have forgotten. More importantly, Zach's research was focused on the fundamentals of emulsion polymerization and largely sponsored by the UNH Latex Morphology Industrial Consortium. Zach's projects centered around new mechanisms, kinetics, and rate constants associated the use of allyl methacrylate in emulsion polymerization as a crosslinker and he also developed a new class of reactive surfactants that we have coined "SurfXmers". Beyond these, Zach also contributed to our work in design of new cryoprotectants as well as to 3D printing and assembly of multi lobed paticles for the NH BioMade project.​