Jack Pronk
Professor of Industrial Microbiology and Head of Biotechnology Department, Delft Technical University, Netherlands
Jack Pronk, professor of Industrial Microbiology at the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), has been named the recipient of the 2018 International Metabolic Engineering Award. The award, presented every two years by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES), a community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) Society for Biological Engineering, recognizes an outstanding career contributor to the field of metabolic engineering. Pronk is being honored for his contributions to metabolic and evolutionary engineering of yeasts for the production of biofuels and chemicals.
View the full announcement: 2018internationalmeaward-announcement_jtp_.pdf