W. H. Peterson Award Winners

The history of the W. H. Peterson Award goes back 33 years. The first W. H. Peterson Award was presented at the 191st ACS National Meeting in New York City in 1969. The list below shows the recent Award winners.

Oral Presentation Award Winners

Year	Award Winner	Presentation Title	University	Advisor(s)
2008	TBA
2007	Rohan Fernandes	Nanofactories for synthesis and delivery of signaling molecules: A tool for engineering metabolism	University of Maryland	William E. Bentley
2006	Brian Timko	Designing and implementing an electronic interface between nanowires and neurons	Harvard University	Charles M. Lieber
2005	Gargi Seth	Engineering mammalian cells for bioprocessing by altering epigenetic gene silencing	University of Minnesota	Wei-Shou Hu
2004	Brian Baynes	Stabilization of Proteins against Aggregation	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Daniel I. C. Wang and Bernhardt L. Trout
2003	Vy Lam	Monitoring of viral spread and the development of cellular defensive responses to vesicular stomatitis virus infections in vitro	University of Wisconsin-Madison	John Yin
2002	Peter M. Tessier	Predictive protein crystallization by rapid screening of osmotic second viral coefficients.	University of Delaware	Abraham Lenhoff
2001	Stephen R. Dziennik	Effect of ionic strength on protein uptake rates in ion exchange chromatography particles	University of Delaware	Abraham Lenhoff
2000	Philip Gibbs	Imaging polarimetry for high throughput chiral screening	University of Houston	Richard Willson
1999	William R. Farmer	Reprogramming the regulatory circuits of Escherichia coli	UCLA	James C. Liao
1998	Stefanie Pluschkell	Growth and glutamic acid production by Bacillus methanolicus MGA3	University of Minnesotta	Michael C. Flickinger
1997	Camilla Mei-Fang Kao	Structure, Function and Engineering of Modular Polyketide Synthases	Stanford University	Chaitan Khosla
1996	Frank Skraly	Metabolic engineering of 1,3-propanediol production from glycerol and from sugars	University of Wisconsin	Douglas C. Cameron

Poster Presentation Award Winners

Year	Award Winner	Presentation Title	University	Advisor (s)
2008	TBA
2007	Christopher J. Morrison	Investigation of chemically sensitive displacers using robotic High Throughput Screening, SPR, NMR and MD simulations	Rensselaer Polytechnic	Steven Cramer and Jonathan Dordick
2005	Ryan Woodyer	Protein engineering of phosphate dehydrogenase for NAD(P)H regeneration	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Huimin Zhao and Wilfred van der Donk
2004	Kaushal Rege	Parallel Synthesis and High-Throughput Evaluation of Novel Multivalent Polycations and Cationic Polymers for DNA Binding	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Steven Cramer
2003	Tricia M. Coleman	An investigation into the size-activity relationship of RNA catalysis.	University of Southern Mississippi	Faqing Huang
2002	Karthik Viswanathan	Engineering the Sialylation Pathway in Insect Cells	Johns Hopkins University	Michael Betenbaugh
2001	Nihal Tugcu	Anion Exchange displacer discovery using high-throughout screening and quantitative structure efficacy relationship models	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Steven Cramer
2000	Ganesh Vedantham	Protein structural integrity loss during continous infusion therapy	Carnegie Mellon University	Todd Przybycien
1999	Michael L. Hoffman	Metabolic engineering of the production of 1,2-Propanediol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	University of Wisconsin	Douglas C. Cameron
1998	Bruno Figueroa	Using anti-apoptosis genes to extend mammalian cell survival in culture	John Hopkins University	Michael J. Betenbaugh
1996	Robin Curtis		UC-Berkeley	John Prausnitz

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