The Society for Biological Engineering is happy to announce Dr. Terry Papoutsakis as the winner of the 2013 D.I.C Wang Award for his transformative contributions in metabolic engineering & clostridial biotechnologies, cell-culture engineering, and stem-cell biotechnologies. His talk at the 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting is entitled "Force to death and new life, some with programming vitality". It takes place on Monday, November 4, 6pm to 7pm.