June 2018
Liming Cai, Ph.D., has been promoted to the role of principal scientist at MGP. His primary responsibilities include providing research, applications and technical support to grow and enhance the company"s portfolio of specialty starches and proteins that address increased demand for clean label, healthy and functional food products.
Dr Cai joined MGP in the role of applications scientist in 2013. He previously had served as a post- doctoral research associate in cereal chemistry at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. He began in that position in January 2012 after spending over four years as a graduate research assistant in carbohydrate chemistry in the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
