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Eugene DuPont Chair Professor; Dept. of Chem. & Biomolecular Engineering & Dept. of Biological Sci., Univ. of Delaware, USA. Contact Info: Delaware Biotechnology Institute, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA. TEL: 302 831-8376; epaps@udel.edu
Education: Nat. Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece: BS/MS in ChE;
Purdue University: MS/PhD in ChE.
Experience:
1980-85, Assistant Prof.; 1985-87, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Rice University.
1987-89, Assoc. Professor; 1989 - 2002, Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Northwestern Univ.
2002-07, Walter P. Murphy Professor, Dept. of Chem. & Biological Eng., Northwestern Univ.
1994-07, Member, Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University Medical School
2007 - Eugene DuPont Chair Professor, Dept. of Chem. & Biomolecular Engineering, Dept of Biological Sciences, and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Research: Papoutsakis’ group is active and has made important contributions in the areas of animal-cell biotechnology; stem-cell bioengineering with emphasis in hematopoietic stem-cell engineering; clostridia genetics and metabolic engineering; all with strong functional genomics and genome-engineering emphasis. His group was one of the first to recognize the importance of and study the fundamental mechanisms, both fluid-mechanical and biological, underlying cell injury and death due to mixing and aeration in animal-cell bioreactors, as well as one of the earliest to recognize the importance of bioprocess parameters on protein glycosylation. He pioneered several bioprocessing issues in stem-cell biotechnologies, and is widely recognized as a pioneer in metabolic engineering, especially as applied to anaerobes.
Training Record & Impact: 53 PhD, 22 MS, 22 postdoctoral and 63 undergraduate students (w/ research projects/theses). Founded & directed (93-02) the NIH Biotechnology Program (www.biotechtraining.northwestern.edu/index.htm) at Northwestern Univ. (NU), which has impacted over 150 doctoral students from many disciplines (Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering). Founded and directed (03-07) the Professional Master’s in Biotechnology Program (http://mbp.northwestern.edu/) at NU which has trained over 100 Professional Master’s students for careers in biotechnology and has become one of the most successful professional programs in the US.
Funding: Over $25 million in grants as PI from NIH, NSF, DOE, EPA & NASA (US federal agencies).
Publications & Impact: Over 230 publications, with > 5,400 citations (h=43).
Patents: Over 15 issued and pending patents
Books: Co-edited two significant books, both of which have impacted significantly the genesis ("Foundations of Biochemical Engineering: Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Biological Systems." ACS Symp. Series No. 207 (with HW Blanch and GN Stephanopoulos), 1983) and establishment (with SY Lee (as Editors): “Metabolic Engineering” M. Dekker, 1999) of Biochemical & Metabolic Engineering.
Honors & Awards. 2010 Metabolic Engineering Award; 2010 Gaden award; 2003 Alpha Chi Sigma AIChE (Amer. Institute of Chem. Engineers) Award; 2004 Merck Cell Culture Engineering Award; 2005 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award; 1995 AIChE Food Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award; 1998 American Chemical Society (BIOT) Marvin Johnson Award. Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Academy of Microbiology; and Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Service, Boards, Consulting & Startups. Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of Biotechnology & Bioengineering; Editor: Biotechnology Advances (Elsevier). Advisory Boards of several biotech & ChE journals (J. Biotechnol; Metabolic Engineering; Tissue Engineering; Curr. Opinion in Chem. Engineering; Ind. Eng. Chem. Research; Biofuels). He has served as a member of many (>100) review boards, advisory panels and Executive Committees of professional societies. Has extensive consulting experience in the biotechnology industry, and has also founded two biotech companies. |
