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Dr. Michael Flickinger, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and microbiology at North Carolina State University, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Flickinger and other ACS Fellows will be honored at a special ceremony during the group’s national meeting in Washington, DC, on Aug. 17. The 2009 class of ACS Fellows is the inaugural class.
Flickinger has authored more than 100 academic and professional publications and is an internationally recognized expert in industrial bioprocess technology, cell culture technology, biochemical engineering, industrial microbiology, bioseparations, containment technology, and bioprocess facilities and equipment design. He holds 20 patents and has trained more than 30 graduate students in biotechnology related to process technology. He was the founding director of the University of Minnesota Biotechnology Institute; editor of the Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Industrial Biotechnology; and director of the National Cancer Institute’s Fermentation Program.
Flickinger currently serves as the associate director of academic programs for NC State’s Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC). His BTEC teaching efforts focus on development of new courses related to emerging technologies in biomanufacturing science and engineering.
ACS, with more than 154,000 members, is the world’s largest scientific society and a leading source of authoritative scientific information. The society publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. It also provides more than $22 million every year in grants for research in petroleum and related fields. Flickinger was chairman of the ACS Division of Microbial and Biochemical Technology (now known as BIOT) in 1989 and has been active in ACS for the past 29 years. He received the BIOT Van Lanen Service Award in 1995 and the Perlman Lecture Award in 1993.
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