DAVID PERLMAN LECTURE

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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, 2008 500 PM Philadelphia Marriott
Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon I/J Sponsored by
GENZYME Corporation
Robert R. Ruffolo, Jr., Ph.D.
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MARVIN J. JOHNSON AWARD
Lowering Cholesterol and Raising Antibodies

Barry C. Buckland, Ph.D., Research Vice
President of BioProcess RD, Merck Co., Inc.
This award recognizes many of Dr. Bucklands
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 2008 500 pm Philadelphia
Marriott, Grand Blrm ,Salon H, 500
pm Sponsored by Pfizer, Inc.
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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
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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,
2008 1230 PM Philadelphia Marriott
Downtown Grand 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
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THE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Directed Evolution for Fun and Profit
Huimin Zhao, PhD Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) This years
award recognizes Professor Zhaos outstanding
contributions in the area of directed evolution
for industrial and medical biotechnology
applications Wednesday, August 20, 2008 500
PM Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Grand Blrm
Salon H Sponsored by Genentech
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ELMER GADEN AWARD
"Humanization of anti-human insulin receptor
antibody for drug targeting across the human
blood-brain barrier".
William M. Pardridge, M.D The 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, 2008 500pm
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon
H Sponsored by John Wiley and Sons
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The W.H. Peterson Award
Rohan Fernandez Graduate Student from
Professor William E. Bentleys 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
"Nanofactories for synthesis and delivery of
signaling molecules A tool for engineering
metabolism
The winner of the 2007 Peterson Award for the
best oral presentation.
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BB 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 BB, was initiated in
2008. Monday, August 18, 2008 500pm Philadelphia
Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm Salon H
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The E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial
Engineering Chemistry
Georges Belfort, Russell Sage Professor of
Chemical and Biological Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The award recognizes outstanding
theoretical or experimental research in
industrial or chemical engineering. It recognizes
Professor Belforts seminal contributions in
liquid-phase pressure-driven membrane-based
processes, bioseparations engineering,
interfacial science, and affinity
separations. Monday, August 18, 2008 1230
PM Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Blrm
Salon H