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
BIOT Young Investigator Award
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
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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)
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)
- Robert R. Ruffolo, Jr. (2008)
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. Recent
recepients include:
Information and Application
forms for the Industrial Biotechnology Award
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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)
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)
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