October 1, 2005

E. Terry Papoutsakis will receive one of the highest awards in biochemical engineering: the Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award, to be awarded at the Biochemical Engineering Conference in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada from July 10-14, 2006. This award is presented every other year.

According to the conference website: "This prestigious Award has been awarded for over 10 years and is an integral part of this conference. The Amgen Award (supported by Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, a leading biotechnology company with pioneering human therapeutic products) is given in memory of James E. Bailey to recognize research excellence and leadership in Biochemical Engineering. Former recipients include James E. Bailey, Daniel I.C. Wang, Michael L. Shuler, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Douglas S. Clark, and Harvey W. Blanch."

Congratulations also to E. Terry Papoutsakis on his election as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. From the ASM web site: The American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. Members of the AAM are known as Fellows. Fellows are elected through a highly selective, annual, peer-reviewed process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.

Very few engineers have been elected as Fellows of the ASM. These include Perry McCarty from Stanford and George Georgiou from Texas. Other NU faculty members elected as ASM Fellows this year are Steven M. Wolinsky, Samuel J. Sackett Professor of Medicine and Division Chief of Infectious Diseases, and Laimonis A. Laimins, Professor of Microbiology-Immunology. They join current NU faculty ASM Fellows Robert A. Lamb, John Evans Professor of BMBCB, and Patricia G. Spear, Professor and former Chair of Microbiology-Immunology.