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And the Winners are ...
"Biocat Award 2008" goes to partner of BIOCATALYSIS2021

(Sept. 2, 2008) Professor Uwe Bornscheuer has been honored with the Biocat Award 2008 in the category "Academic Research". He received the award during the 4th International Congress on Biocatalysis (biocat2008) held at the Hamburg University of Technology from August 31 till September 4. The award recognizes Uwe Bornscheuers' excellent scientific work in the development of tailor-made biocatalysts suitable for industrial applications.

Uwe Bornscheuer is Head of the Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis, Institute of Biochemistry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald. As partner of the Cluster BIOCATALYSIS2021 he is the technology coordinator in the field of screening and enzyme optimizing.

The prize was given for the fourth time as an award for scientific excellence in the field of biocatalysis. This year's winners besides of Professor Uwe Bornscheuer are:

• Professor Hermann Sahm (Forschungszentrum Jülich) in the category "Lifetime Achievement Award"

and

• Dr. Ramesh N. Patel (Bristol-Myers Squibb) in the category "Industrial Research"

The Biocat Award was endowed in 2004 to honor outstanding scientists for their significant contribution to biocatalysis. The previous winners are: Professor Bernd Hauer, Professor Nick Turner, Professor Kaszlauskas, Professor Jon Stewart, Dr. Marcel Wubbolts and Professor Herfried Griengl.

Chairman Professor Garabed Antranikian: "I congratulate the winners and thank them for their important impetus and outstanding research contributions to the biocatalysis and biotechnology."

Picture 1: Winners (f.l) Professor Hermann Sahm (Kategorie Lebenswerk), Dr. Ramesh N. Patel (Kategorie Industrielle Forschung), Professor Uwe Bornscheuer (Kategorie Akademische Forschung).
Picture 2: Winners and Jury (f.l.) Professor Garabed Antranikian, Professor Koki Horikoshi, Professor Hermann Sahm, Dr. Ramesh N. Patel, Professor Uwe Bornscheuer, Professor Stefanie Heiden (Antranikian, Horikoshi, Heiden are Members of the Jury)
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INFORMATION
Professor Uwe Bornscheuer is within BIOCATALYSIS2021 Technical Coordinator and with his Department of Biotechnology & Enzyme Catalysis of the Institute of Biochemistry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald Cluster Partner.
Professor Garabed Antranikian is within BIOCATALYSIS2021 initiator of the cluster and responsible for the scientific cluster-management and with his Institute of Technical Microbiology at the Hamburg University of Technology Cluster Partner.
In the Web: biocat2008 4th International Congress on Biocatalysis

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