Doug Cameron Honored with Raphael Katzen Award for Distinguished Contributions for the Deployment & Commercialization of Biot...
May 06 2009 - 12:52PM
Business Wire
Piper Jaffray Investment Management chief science advisor, Doug
Cameron, will be awarded the 2009 Raphael Katzen Award on Wednesday
night at the 31st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and
Chemicals. The award recognizes an individual who has made
distinguished contributions to enable and further the deployment
and commercialization of biotechnology to produce fuels and
chemicals from renewable sources.
Cameron joined Piper Jaffray as chief science advisor in
September 2008, and is part of the firm�s global franchise in
renewable energy and clean technology. He joined Piper Jaffray from
Khosla Ventures, where as chief scientific officer, he led
technical due diligence for many of the firm�s clean technology
investments. He was on the board of directors and the scientific
advisory boards of Gevo, LS9, Mascoma, Segetis, Lanzatech, Kior and
Draths, and had senior management roles in several of these
companies.
�Doug has been a critical proponent and leading expert in the
deployment and commercialization of biotechnology as a source of
producing fuels and chemicals as renewable sources, and this award
captures his contributions in this important field,� said Jim
McMillan, manager of biorefining process R&D at the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Cameron earned a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he did research on
microbial fermentation for the production of fuels and chemicals.
He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a bachelor�s
of science and engineering degree in biomedical engineering.
The Raphael Katzen Award is named in the honor of Dr. Raphael
Katzen, who is a pioneer in commercializing technologies for
converting renewable feedstocks into fuels and chemicals.
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