Elisabeth Zeisberg endeavors to understand the pathogenesis of cardiac fibrogenesis by linking experimental models to clinical observations. Within this aim she identified endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EndMT) as a new mechanism which contributes to fibrosis (Nat Med 2007). Based on the finding that EndMT and fibrogenesis is driven by epigenetic silencing of fibrosis-suppressor genes via aberrant DNA methylation (Nat Med 2010), the Zeisberg team was one of the first to demonstrate gene-specific reversal of such DNA methylation and the first to demonstrate its utility as anti-...Read more
Shailen Singh is a director at Merck and leads the upstream commercialization activities within biologics process development & commercialization group in Manufacturing Division. He has over 10 years of experience in upstream process development, commercialization and manufacturing science & technology activities. Before Merck he was at Medimmune leading similar activities. Shailen has a PhD from University of California Riverside and masters/bachelors from IIT Delhi in Biochemical Engineering....Read more
Dr. Semones is a distinguished research and development director whose recent work has focused on the applied discovery of microbial technology for agriculture.
Dr. Semones has more than 18 years of experience at Novozymes Biologicals, Inc., where he helped build its BioAg R&D Application Division. Most recently, he was Director of BioAg R&D Application Development and Novozymes Biologicals Site Lead, directing R&D efforts across three sites within North America, as well as a global field R&D team. He has been the R&D lead for the BioAg Alliance, the strategic...Read more
To kick off the New Year, we’ll reflect on a few lessons, still relevant today, from technological progress in the past. Like us, our forbearers faced political, social, and economic challenges, and, like us, they looked to science for solutions. Along the way, they made amazing discoveries but...Read more
The award is presented at the AIChE Spring National Meeting.
Nomination Instructions
Papers submitted to co-sponsored sessions by F&PD will also be considered. Application areas will be reviewed on a yearly basis to adjust, as appropriate, to industry trends in the same general area of chemical engineering applications. Current members of Professor Karim’s research team including undergraduate and graduate students, along with people in post-doctoral appointments, are not eligible for the award.
Prior to the annual Spring AIChE meeting, F&PD will form an ad-hoc review committee with members drawn from F&PD Executive committee members, F&PD Programming Area Chairs, F&PD members, and/or recognized Advanced Control Experts in the field. Using an established rubric, papers will be judged according to how the work advances the science and/or practice of advanced controls for the Fuels and Petrochemicals industries while also considering presentation/paper qualities such as technical & logical validity, innovation impact, and writing/presentation clarity. F&PD reserves the right not to grant the award in any given year. If an award is not given in a year, then the funds will be rolled over and the timeline for the award will be extended beyond the initial 5-year period.
In thanks for the generous personal contribution from Professor M. Nazmul Karim, the Fuels & Petrochemicals Division (F&PD) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is pleased to announce the Professor M. Nazmul Karim Award in Process Control and Automation. This award consists of a $500 honorarium and will be presented annually for the next 5 years starting in 2018.
David R. Shonnard is a professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and the Richard and Bonnie Robbins Chair in Sustainable Use of Materials at Michigan Technological Univ. His teaching and research interests are at the intersection of chemical engineering and environmental sustainability. He has co-authored two textbooks: one on green engineering and another on sustainable engineering; developed and directs a multidisciplinary graduate certificate in engineering sustainability and resilience; and developed numerous educational modules to incorporate sustainability into core chemical...Read more
