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Guidelines for The 6th International Metabolic Engineering Award (PDF)
"the name of the Merck Metabolic Engineering award has been changed to a more formal distinguished award of THE 6th INTERNATIONAL METABOLIC ENGINEERING AWARD" (everything including the selection process is same)
Papoutsakis short biosketch
Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis is the Eugene DuPont Chair at the Chemical Engineering department and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware. He received his Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his MS and PhD from Purdue University. He started his academic career at Rice University as an Assistant Professor in 1980, and moved to Northwestern University in 1987 as an Associate Professor. Prior to moving to the Univ. of Delaware, he served as Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University.
He has served as the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of Biotechnology & Bioengineering for many years, and he serves on the Advisory Boards of several journals in biotechnology. His research and professional contributions have been recognized by several awards including the 2010 Gaden award from Biotechnology & Bioengineering, the 2003 Alpha Chi Sigma AIChE (Amer. Institute of Chem. Engineers) Award, the 1995 AIChE Food Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award; the 1998 American Chemical Society Marvin Johnson Award, the 2004 Merck Cell Culture Engineering Award, and the 2005 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award. He has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), of the American Academy of Microbiology, and is also a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He has co-edited two significant books, both of which have impacted significantly the genesis ("Foundations of Biochemical Engineering: Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Biological Systems." ACS Symp. Series No. 207 (with HW Blanch and GN Stephanopoulos), 1983) and establishment (with SY Lee (as Editors): “Metabolic Engineering” Marcel Dekker, 1999) of Metabolic Engineering. He has published over 200 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters, and has been the inventor on more than 15 patents and patent applications. His training record includes the research supervision of 55 Doctoral, 27 MS, 20 postdoctoral and 55 undergraduate students. He has served as a member of many review boards, advisory panels and professional societies, and has extensive consulting experience in the biotechnology industry.
Papoutsakis’ current research focuses on metabolic engineering of microbial cells with emphasis on genomic and genetic means for developing cells of the genus Clostridium and E. coli strains capable of efficiently producing biofuels and chemicals from cellulosics. Further, he works on bioengineering of stem cells and hematopoiesis (the process by which mature blood cells are generated from stem cells in the bone marrow), aiming to develop processes for the ex vivo production of blood cells.
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