Andrew Zydney

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Summary

Current research activities are focused in three distinct areas: artificial organs, bioseparations and membrane processes with the goal is of developing a more fundamental understanding of the factors governing the behavior of these processes, including t

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Recent Publications

Development of charged membranes for the ultrafiltration of siRNA

Banik, I., Qian, K. K., Mason, M. L. & Zydney, A. L., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 713, 123274.

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Vibration-assisted ultrafiltration dramatically improves mRNA purification

Behboudi, A., Javidanbardan, A., Wang, Z., Zhou, L. & Zydney, A. L., Aug 14 2025, In: Separation and Purification Technology. 363, 132179.

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Development of a local wall concentration model for the design of single pass tangential flow filtration (SPTFF) systems with viral vector surrogates

Chaubal, A. S., Single, A. J. & Zydney, A. L., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 713, 123276.

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Detergent/surfactant retention during ultrafiltration in the formulation of biotherapeutics

Chu, L. K., Du, Z., Billups, M., Oh, H. J. & Zydney, A. L., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Biotechnology progress.

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Enhancing Virus Filter Performance Through Pretreatment by Membrane Adsorbers

Isu, S., Chen, S. T., Daneshpour, R., Shirataki, H., Strauss, D., Zydney, A. L., Qian, X. & Wickramasinghe, S. R., Jan 2025, In: Membranes. 15, 1, 34.

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Single-pass tangential flow filtration (SPTFF) for continuous mRNA concentration and purification

Javidanbardan, A., Wang, Z., Kostic, A., Behboudi, A. & Zydney, A. L., Mar 2025, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 719, 123730.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Flux and fouling behavior during constant pressure sterile filtration of nanoemulsions

Kapila, S., Soukup, R. J., Bradley, M. E. & Zydney, A. L., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 713, 123370.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Single particle tracking reveals through-membrane diffusion of bacteriophage during process disruption of virus filtration

Wyllie, I., Afzal, M. A., Shi, A., Zydney, A. L. & Schwartz, D. K., Jan 2025, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 713, 123380.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Protein on Virus Retention for Different Virus Removal Filters

Afzal, M. A., Peles, J. & Zydney, A. L., Jul 2024, In: Membranes. 14, 7, 158.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Impact of proteins and protein fouling on virus retention during virus removal filtration

Afzal, M. A. & Zydney, A. L., Feb 2024, In: Biotechnology and bioengineering. 121, 2, p. 710-718 9 p.

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Addition of sodium malonate alters the morphology and increases the critical flux during tangential flow filtration of precipitated immunoglobulins

Behboudi, A., Minervini, M., Badinger, Z. S., Haddad, W. W. & Zydney, A. L., Jun 2024, In: Protein Science. 33, 6, e5010.

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Tangential flow filtration for continuous processing of crystallized proteins

Behboudi, A., Minervini, M., Kedzierski, A., Azzariti, L. & Zydney, A. L., May 25 2024, In: Separation and Purification Technology. 336, 126311.

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Filtration of a multi-serotype glycoconjugate vaccine drug product through sterilizing grade 0.2/0.22 µm pore size filters

Du, Z., Qiu, S., Gill, K., Toprani, V. & Zydney, A. L., Feb 2024, In: Biotechnology Journal. 19, 2, 2300450.

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Membrane technology for the purification of RNA and DNA therapeutics

Javidanbardan, A., Messerian, K. O. & Zydney, A. L., Jun 2024, In: Trends in Biotechnology. 42, 6, p. 714-727 14 p.

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Development of a new modeling framework to describe sterile filtration of mRNA-Lipid nanoparticles

Messerian, K. O., Zverev, A., Kramarczyk, J. F. & Zydney, A. L., Jul 2024, In: Journal of Membrane Science. 706, 122965.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review