Department of Chemical Engineering Biochemical Engineering SG Postgraduate Research Event

The day included the presentation of the very prestigious Donald Medal of the  IChemE. The Donald Medal is named after Professor Maxwell Bruce Donald, former  Ramsay Professor at University College London where biochemical engineering was  first established in the UK, and is awarded by the Biochemical Engineering  Subject Group for outstanding services in that area.

The IChemE Biochemical Engineering Subject  Group Postgraduate Research Event took place at the Department of Chemical  Engineering, University of Cambridge on Monday, 16 December 2002. The keynote  speaker was Dr Barry Buckland, Vice President Bioprocess R and D at Merck (USA),  who spoke on The future of biochemical engineering: the pharmaceutical  industry perspective.

The photograph shows Dr Barry Buckland (on the left) receiving the Medal from  the Vice President of the IChemE Biochemical Engineering Subject Group Dr Anton Middelberg. Dr  Buckland is one of the leading biochemical engineers in the global bioindustry.  He has been responsible for bringing through to the public a number of major  vaccines. He is very active in research and the award of the Donald Medal  recognises his significant contribution and lifetime achievement in biochemical  engineering.

The agenda for the Research Event included talks, poster sessions and further award  presentations. There was a prize for the best Biochemical Engineering Image. The  prize for the best presentation was won by Chew Tin Lee (photo on the right, receiving from Dr Buckland) from the Department of  Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University for her paper on An integrated  refolding and extraction system for the production of recombinant protein from  inclusion bodies. The runner up was Emma Emanuelsson from Imperial College.  The prize for best poster was won by Helen Onyeaka from Birmingham University,  with runner up, Giacomo Morreale from Cambridge.

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