Brian H. Davison, Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology and Science Coordinator in the DOE BioEnergy Science Center, will receive the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) 2017 Fellowship.
Fellowship status is a special grade of membership in SIMB, acknowledging a career long sustained record of significant research and/or service contributions to the profession of industrial microbiology and/or biotechnology.
Dr. Davison will receive his award during the SIMB Annual Meeting in Denver, Co.
He has 160+ publications and ten patents in bioprocessing, industrial microbiology, biofuels and bioproducts. His Ph.D. in ChemE. is from California Institute of Technology and BS in ChemE from U of Rochester. He co-chaired the 15th to 26th Symposia on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. He is on the Board of the Society for Biological Engineering. Honors include an R&D100 for bio-succinic acid, the SIMB CD Scott award, and AIChE Fellow.