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DAVID PERLMAN LECTURE
" The Trials and Tribulations of a Medical Breakthrough: The Discovery and Development of Carvedilol (Coreg) for the
Treatment of Heart Failure"
President of Research & Development for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and Senior Vice President of Wyeth (Corporation)
For his achievements in leading discovery and development of a number of pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals
Sunday, August 17, 20085:00 PMPhiladelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon I/J
Sponsored by GENZYME Corporation
Robert R. Ruffolo, Jr., Ph.D.
MARVIN J. JOHNSON AWARD
“Lowering Cholesterol and Raising Antibodies”
Barry C. Buckland, Ph.D., Research Vice President of BioProcess R&D, Merck &Co., Inc.
This award recognizes many of Dr. Buckland’s contributions to the field ranging from enzymatic catalysis in solvents and microbial fermentations to pioneering work in cell culture, metabolic engineering, and vaccine process development.
Tuesday, August 18 20085:00 pm Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Blrm ,Salon H, 5:00 pm
Sponsored by Pfizer, Inc.
JAMES M. VAN LANEN AWARD
Jonathan Coffman, Ph.D
The award recognizes Jon's dedication and leadership on many fronts, but especially as the
2003 division program co-chair, the division secretary between 2004 and 2006, and the Web
Seminar Program Coordinator since 2005.
Sponsored by the Division of Biochemical Technology
THE INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AWARD
Wyeth BioPharma Development
For outstanding accomplishments in developing a high titer, high capacity platform process for clinical and commercial biopharmaceutical manufacturing that embodies concepts of simplicity in design and execution.
Dr. Jeffrey S. Deetz, Assistant Vice President, Technology and Innovation, Biotech Process Development will accept the award and present the award lecture
Tuesday, August 19, 200812:30 PMPhiladelphia Marriott DowntownGrand Blrm Salon H,
Sponsored by the Division of Biochemical Technology
"Realizing the Vision of Biology over Steel: Wyeth BioPharma's Strategy for Platform
Process Development”
THE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Huimin Zhao, PhD Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
This year’s award recognizes Professor Zhao’s outstanding contributions in the area of directed evolution for industrial and medical biotechnology applications
Wednesday, August 20, 20085:00 PMPhiladelphia Marriott DowntownGrand Blrm Salon H
Sponsored by Genentech
ELMER GADEN AWARD
"Humanization of anti-human insulin receptor antibody for drug targeting across the human blood-
brain barrier".
William M. Pardridge, M.DThe Gaden Award is presented each year for a high-impact
paper published in Biotechnology & Bioengineering that reflects exceptional innovation, creativity and originality.
Monday, August 18, 20085:00pm
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon H
Sponsored by John Wiley and Sons
The W.H. Peterson Award
Rohan FernandezGraduate Student from Professor William E. Bentley’s lab at
University Maryland-College Park
"Investigation of chemically sensitive displacers using robotic High Throughput Screening, SPR, NMR and MD
simulations ".
The winner of the 2007 Peterson Award for best poster.
Chris Morrison Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The W.H. Peterson Award is granted each year by the Division of Biochemical Technology to student members
who present outstanding research work in sessions sponsored by the division at ACS national meetings in
the previous year.
Sponsored by Gibco Cell Culture, Invitrogen
The winner of the 2007 Peterson Award for the best oral presentation.
"Nanofactories for synthesis and delivery of signaling molecules: A tool for engineering metabolism“
B&B D.I.C. Wang Award
Matthew DeLisa Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University
The award, which honors a distinguished young researcher who has shown a sustained commitment to
B&B, was initiated in 2008.
Monday, August 18, 20085:00pmPhiladelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon H
The E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
The award recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental research in industrial or chemical engineering. It recognizes Professor Belfort’s seminal contributions in liquid-phase pressure-driven membrane-based processes, bioseparations engineering, interfacial science, and affinity separations.
Monday, August 18, 200812:30 PMPhiladelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon H
Georges Belfort, Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute