Professor Sangyeop Lee of KAIST, First Asian to Receive World's Top Biotechnology Award
Received the 'Charles Scott Award' from the American Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology on the 26th
"Significantly contributed to fuel and chemical production through biotechnology"
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-su] A Korean research team has become the first Asians to receive an award given to the world's top biotechnologists.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on the 26th that Distinguished Professor Lee Sang-yeop (Vice President for Research) of the Department of Bio and Chemical Engineering received the 2021 Charles D. Scott Award from the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) in the United States, becoming the first Asian recipient.
Professor Lee pioneered systems metabolic engineering and developed fundamental technologies related to strategies and methods for creating numerous microbial cell factories. Using these, he developed technologies to produce various products such as gasoline, diesel, biodegradable plastics, various monomers used as raw materials for polymers, and natural active substances with world-first or world-best efficiency.
Recently, he developed high-efficiency production strains and fermentation processes for succinic acid and glutaric acid, raw materials for polyesters, and was the first in the world to produce carminic acid, a red edible pigment among natural products.
The Charles D. Scott Award is a prestigious award established by the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology in 1995. It is given to individuals who have made the greatest contributions to producing fuels and chemicals using biotechnology. Until now, recipients have only come from Western countries such as the United States and Europe.
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The award ceremony is scheduled to be held at the 43rd Symposium on Biomaterials, Fuels and Chemicals, which will be held online from the 26th to the 28th.
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