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Dr. Patrick B. Smith Dr. Patrick B. Smith is a Research Scientist at MMI. He spent 32 years with The Dow Chemical Company, rising to the rank of Scientist prior to his retirement in 2007. His areas of research included the synthesis, structure/property relationships and applications of biobased materials, polymer characterization and NMR spectroscopy. He served with Cargill Dow Polymers which launched the IngeoTM PLA line of products where he defined the processing conditions for PLA films, developed structure/property relationships for oriented films and a PLA service life model. After his retirement from Dow, he consulted with Archer Daniels Midland acting as ADM’s R&D leader for their Telles joint venture with Metabolix that commercialized PHA. He also supported ADM’s biobased propylene glycol product launch. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Central Michigan University and a member of the American Chemical Society (2005 Midland Section Chair). He received the Midland Chapter Sigma Xi Award for the Outstanding Research Publication in 1987 and the Midland Chapter ACS Award for Outstanding Achievement and Promotion of the Chemical Sciences in 1998. He is also the recipient of Dow Analytical Science’s V. A. Stenger Award in 1984 and the Dow Michigan R&D Scientists’ Award in 1994. He has co-authored nearly 500 Dow technical reports, over 75 publications and 2 patents.
Richard A. Gross Professor Richard A. Gross has a Ph.D. (1986) in organic/polymer chemistry from Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, New York) under the guidance of Mark Green. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) working with Robert Lenz, followed by appointment as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor at University of Massachusetts (Lowell) from 1988−1998. Since 1998 he has occupied the Herman F. Mark Chair Professorship at Polytechnic University (New York). His research is focused on developing biocatalytic routes to biobased materials including monomers, macromers, prepolymers, polymers, surfactants, and other biochemicals. He combines chemical methods with cell free and whole-cell biocatalytic systems to investigate biotransformations such as whole-cell routes to biosurfactants, ω-hydroxylation of fatty acids, protease-catalyzed transformations to polypeptides, and lipase-catalyzed routes to biomaterials. Recently he has been exploring using enzymes for surface modification and as “ink” for writing/patterning. He has over 400 publications in peer reviewed journals, been cited about 7000 times, edited 6 books and has granted and filed patents totaling © 2012 American Chemical Society Smith and Gross; Biobased Monomers, Polymers, and Materials ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2012.
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26. He currently runs a group of 30 consisting of 12 Ph.D. students, 4 postdoctoral fellows, 2 visiting students, 8 masters and 6 undergraduate students. Professor Gross was the recipient of the 2003 Presidential Green Chemistry Award in the academic category. In 2007, he was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2010, he was selected as the Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor. He founded SyntheZyme LLC in 2009 and serves as Chief Technology officer. SyntheZyme was established to commercialize technologies developed in Gross’s laboratory. His other Professional activities and honors include: Director of Polymer Research Institute (at POLY), 2003−2006; Director – NSF Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing of Macromolecules (at POLY), 2000−present; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1990−1995; Presidential Award in Green Chemistry, 2003; Founder and Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Polymer Degradation, 1993−1998; Co-founder (with D. Kaplan at Tufts Univ.) of the ACS journal Biomacromolecules, Co-Director of the NSF Biodegradable Polymer Research Center (at UMASS-Lowell), 1993−1998; Past President – U.S. Society on Biodegradable Polymers, 1999; Johnson and Johnson Focused Giving Award, 2000−2002; Editorial Board, Biomacromolecules (2000 to present); Editorial Board, J. Bioactive and Biocompatible Polymers (2001 to 2009); Editorial Board, Industrial Biotechnology (2005 to present); Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic (2005 to present); Editorial Board Enzyme and Microbial Technology (EMT) (2005 to present); Editorial Board ACS Catalysis (Summer 2011 to present) Engineering Conferences Foundation, Board of Directors (2002−2005); Director: Biomedical Engineering Masters Program (2001−2008, POLY & SUNY Downstate).
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