Hal Alper, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Fellow of the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), has been selected by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES) to receive its Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering. The award recognizes original and creative research accomplishments by a young investigator in the field of metabolic engineering, and is named in honor of the late James E. Bailey, an influential chemical engineering teacher and a pioneer in the field of bioengineering, particularly metabolic engineering.
The Young Investigator Award will be presented to Alper at on Wednesday, June 18 at the Metabolic Engineering X conference, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.