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Divisional Awards
Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology
W.H. Peterson Award for Best Student Presentations
David Perlman Memorial Lectureship
Industrial Biotechnology Award
James M. Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award
Alan S. Michaels Award in the Recovery of Biological Products
The Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology
The Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology, to recognize outstanding research contributions to microbial and biochemical technology.
The Award is presented by the Division of Biochemical Technology at the Spring meeting of the American Chemical Society. The recipient's travel expenses to the meeting are provided. An address by the recipient on his/her research is part of the Award Ceremony. The Award was established in 1978 and is currently sponsored by Pfizer.
Recipients of the Johnson Award have been:
- D. Perlman
- S.N. Cohen
- E.T. Reese
- M. Mandels
- D.I.C. Wang
- R.A. Messing
- M.L. Shuler
- G.T. Tsao
- H.R. Bungay
- J.E. Bailey
- A.M. Klibanov
- T.K. Kirk
- E. Gaden, Jr.
- H.W. Blanch
- A.E. Humphrey
- A. Demain
- E. T. Papoutsakis
- M. Moo-Young
- J. Schultz
- G. Stephanopoulos
- M.Ladisch
- G. Georgiou
- R. Kelly
- W.-S. Hu
- D. S. Clark
- J. Dordick
- B. Buckland
- James Liao
- Bernard Palsson
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The James M. Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award
The James M. Van Lanen Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the BIOT Division. Recent recipients include:
- Charles L. Cooney (1985)
- William E. Brown (1986)
- Sheldon Bernstein (1987)
- Robert Steel (1988)
- Michael Ladisch (1990)
- Sharon Shoemaker (1991)
- Arindam Bose (1992)
- James Swartz (1993)
- Ronald J. Huss (1994)
- Michael Flickinger (1995)
- Fred Heineken (1996)
- Jonathan Woodward (1997)
- Eliana DeBernardez Clark (1998)
- Govind Rao (2000)
- Richard Willson (2001)
- Michael Betenbaugh (2002)
- Kent Goklen (2003)
- Jacqueline Shanks (2004)
- Erik Fernandez (2005)
- Sam Guhan (2006)
- Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis (2007)
- Jonathan Coffman (2008)
- Mark Marten (2009)
- Weichang Zhou (2010)
Deadlines: The deadline for submitting nominations for the Van Lanen Award for the year is August 31 of a given year. Please send nominations to the Chair of BIOT.
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W.H. Peterson Award for Best Student Presentations
The W.H. Peterson Award is granted annually for the best oral presentation by a student and the best poster by a student in Biochemical Technology Division-sponsored sessions at the ACS National Meeting (usually in the Spring). The Awardees receive a cash award as well as a plaque to commemorate the award. Additionally, each of the Awardees will receive up to a $250 catalog credit from Gibco Cell Culture - Invitrogen for their research groups. The Division of Biochemical Technology is pleased to have Gibco Cell Culture - Invitrogen as a continuing financial sponsor of the award.
Students must apply for the award by returning the completed the Peterson Award Application Form to the award coordinators. Advisors, please encourage your students to apply for the award.
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The David Perlman Memorial Lectureship
The David Perlman Memorial Lectureship, which honors the many contributions of the late Professor Perlman. The Perlman Lecture is sponsored by Genzyme.
Recent lecturers include:
- J. Bryan Jones (1985)
- George T. Tsao (1986)
- David Hopwood (1988)
- Arthur E. Humphrey (1989)
- Daniel I.C. Wang (1991)
- Robert Langer (1992)
- Michael Flickinger (1993)
- Charles D. Scott (1994)
- Philip Sharp (1995)
- Mario Geysen (1996)
- Flossie Wong-Staal (1997)
- Douglas Kilburn (1998)
- Edwin Lightfoot (1999)
- Craig Venter (2000)
- Willem "Pim" Stemmer (2001)
- Leroy Hood (2002)
- Frances Arnold (2003)
- William Haseltine (2004)
- Paul Schimmel (2005)
- James Wells (2006)
- Susan Lindquist (2007)
- R.R. Ruffolo, Jr. (2008)
- David Bartel (2009)
- Jonathon Weissman (2010)
Deadlines: The deadline for submitting nominations for the Perlman Lectureship for the year is August 31 of a given year. Please send nominations to the Chair of BIOT.
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Industrial Biotechnology Award
This award honors distinguished Industrial accomplishments in Biotechnology. Competition for this award opened in 1997, with a kick-off symposium at the Spring meeting. Nominations are now solicited!
Information and Application forms for the Industrial Biotechnology Award
- Merck for VAQTA Vaccine (1998)
- Advanced Tissue Sciences and IDEO for Dermagraft (2003)
- Bayer for Perfusion Technology (2004)
- Merck for HPV (2006)
- Genentech Lucentis® (2007)
- Wyeth Platform for Process Development (2008)
- DuPont/Genencor/Tate&Lyle for 1,3 propanediol process (2009)
- Cargill (2010)
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Alan S. Michaels Award in the Recovery of Biological Products
BIOT inaugurated this award in 2006, recognize outstanding research and practice contributions toward the advancement of science and technology for the recovery of biological products. Information and Applications forms are available.
Recipients of the Award have been:
- Steven Cramer (2006)
- Maria-Regina Kula (2007)
- Abraham Lenhoff (2009)
The next award will be given in 2009.
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Young Investigator Award
The Division of Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award is intended to recognize an outstanding young contributor to the field of biochemical technology and an active participant in the division programs. The award nominations will be judged according to criteria as set forth in the guidelines.
- David Schaffer (2006)
- Patrick Daugherty(2007)
- Huimin Zhao (2008)
- Ravi Kane (2009)
- Matthew DeLisa (2010)
