Unlocking the secrets of tissue regeneration may rely on understanding endometriosis, a painful disease thought to affect one in 10 women in their reproductive years.
Dr. Sourav Sengupta has had a long and remarkable career in DuPont for almost 30 years. In 2020, Sourav was honored as a DuPont Laureate and advanced to the highest technical level in the company. He is recognized as an innovator, a problem-solver, and a leader in many areas of catalysis and chemical engineering. Sourav’s work in heterogeneous catalysis, particularly in hydrogenation, hydrodeoxygenation, and hydrogen cyanide synthesis, has had far-reaching influence, evident from...Read more
Dr. James Nuñez is an Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. He earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Colorado, Denver while conducting research with Tatiana Kutateladze and Catherine Musselman on epigenetic reader proteins. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from Jennifer Doudna’s lab at UC Berkeley, where he determined the molecular mechanism of foreign DNA capture by the Cas1-Cas2 integrase complex during CRISPR–Cas immunity in bacteria. He was awarded a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation and a...Read more
Jing-Ke Weng received his B.S. (2003) in Biotechnology from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. (2009) in Biochemistry from Purdue University, and was a pioneer postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Howard Hughs Medical Institute between 2009 and 2013. Currently he is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and an Associate Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Weng's research focuses on understanding the origin and evolution of plant specialized...Read more
Piet van der Meer is trained as a biologist and a lawyer at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, with specialisations in microbiology and ecology, as well as in environmental and international law.
From 1986 until 1999, he was in charge of biosafety regulation in the Netherlands, heading a team of legal and scientific professionals that handled requests for contained use, field trials and placing on the market of genetically modified organisms. During this time he was closely involved in...Read more
In appreciation of Prof. Daniel I.C. Wang’s contributions to education and research in biochemical engineering as well as his technological innovations in bioprocessing.
This award lecture is delivered by an individual who has had an important impact on bioengineering and whose achievements have advanced this profession in any of its aspects.
The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence awards funding to researchers, particularly those working in chemical and biological engineering in pursuing “blue-sky” ideas that may lead to important technical and commercial innovations.
