Spenser Pruett is a Scientist II in the Oligo Process Development group at Nitto Avecia. Spenser is working on a variety of internal R&D programs at Nitto Japan`s Tohoku plant as the company`s first American expatriate. Prior to the Japan assignment, Spenser worked in a variety of roles at Avecia`s Cincinnati site including cGMP manufacturing, process development, process transfer, process validation and R&D (mRNA). Spenser graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His undergraduate research was concerned with meiotic and mitotic cohesion complexes in Arabidopsis.