AMGEN AWARD 1997

Engineering Foundation Conference

Biochemical Engineering X

Professor Michael L. Shuler

Cornell University

The Amgen Award was established by Amgen Inc. to recognize a biochemical engineer's outstanding contribution to the profession. This biennial award is given at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Biochemical Engineering. The tenth Biochemical Engineering Conference will be held from May 18-23, 1997 in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. This year Professor Michael L. Shuler has been selected to receive this award.

Professor Shuler received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He joined Cornell University in 1973 and is the Samuel B. Echert Professor of Chemical Engineering and the director of the Bioengineering Program at Cornell University.

Professor Shuler has made a major impact in the biochemical engineering profession in both research and education. He is a pioneer in engineering research in plant cell culture and its use for the production of biochemicals. His early work on mathematical modeling of E. coli cells was widely recognized as a milestone in the field. Professor Shuler's recent research interests encompass mammalian cells and insect cells for protein production, as well as computer models and cell culture analogs of animals (using multiple cell types) for toxicological studies.

Professor Shuler has supervised more than 49 Ph.D. and M.S. students and numerous undergraduate scholars and has published several textbooks and monographs in the area of biochemical engineering.

Among his honors are an Excellence in Teaching Award (Cornell Society of Engineers), the 1986 Marvin J. Johnson Award for the MBT division of ACS, University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering Honor Award, the 1989 AIChE Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division Award and the 1991 Professional Progress Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Professor Shuler was founding editor of The Biotechnology Progress. He is on the editorial boards for Biotechnology Bioengineering, Biotechnology Progress, and Enzyme and Microbial Technology. He is also a consulting editor with the AIChE Journal. He is on the Board of Directors at Phyton Inc. and the advisory board for Chemical Engineering at Princeton, Carnegie-Mellon, and John Hopkins. He is Vice President for Education for the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.

Professor Shuler will receive the Amgen Award at the Conference banquet on the evening of May 22, 1997 and give the Amgen Award lecture, "Biochemical Engineering: A field of dreams?"