Brian H. Davison, Chief Scientist for Systems Biology and Biotechnology and Science Coordinator in the DOE BioEnergy Science Center, will receive the (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.