Michael Racine

Dr. Racine is an expert in fermentation optimization and scale-up and process engineering with over 20 years of industrial experience. He brings to zuChem an understanding of fermentation optimization and how a final production process will need to be developed in order to successfully implement it at commercial scale. From 1982- 1989 Dr. Racine worked at Enzyme Technologies Corporation where he directed programs for improving bacterial and fungal strains for production of commercially important enzymes for starch processing. From 1989 – 2002 he managed process optimization activities at Genencor International, including fermentation technology development and strain development. Dr. Racine received his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 1974 from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville and his B.S. in Biology in 1969 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.