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Akermin Co-Founder Is 2008 Recipient
of American Chemical Society Award
Dr. Shelley Minteer, professor of chemistry at Saint
Louis University and co-founder of Akermin, Inc., is the 2008 recipient
of the American Chemical Society St. Louis Award, recognizing her leading
research in biofuel cells and enzyme immobilization and stabilization.
The St. Louis Award, sponsored by the Monsanto Company and administered
by the ACS, is presented to an individual who has made outstanding
contributions to the profession of chemistry and demonstrated potential
to further the advancement of the chemical profession. The awardee
is selected by a review committee constituted by the St. Louis Section
of the ACS.
Additionally, Minteer was recently promoted to full
professor in the chemistry department at Saint Louis University.
She received her B.S. degree in chemistry at Western
Illinois University in 1995; and her Ph. D. from the University of
Iowa in 2000. Her graduate work focused on magnetic field effects on
electrochemical systems with specific emphasis on magnetically modified
electrodes for enhanced electron transfer kinetics.
Minteer then joined the faculty of the Department of
Chemistry at Saint Louis University as an assistant professor. She
later received a dual appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
At Saint Louis University, her research program has focused on the
development of enzyme immobilization membranes for increased stability
of biosensor and biofuel cell electrodes, along with incorporating
direct and mediated bioelectrocatalysis into anodes and cathodes. She
has recently expanded this work beyond enzymes to mitochondria and
is currently developing mitochondria-based biofuel cells and self-powered
sensors.
She co-founded Akermin, Inc. in 2003 to commercialize
this technology and now serves as the company's chief science advisor.
She has been the recipient of the Missouri Inventor
of the Year Award (2006), Academy of Science of St Louis Innovation
Award (2005), and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemists Young Investigator
Award (2008). Her work is the subject of more than 75 publications,
30 patent applications, and two text books.
About Akermin
Akermin is a leading developer of stabilized enzyme
solutions for producing power, food, fuels, and specialty chemical
intermediates. Through our unique Stabilized Enzyme Biocatalysis System™
(SEBS), we enable new biocatalytic processes
and make existing enzymatic transformations more robust and efficient
under a wide range of operating conditions, including extremes of temperature
and pH. Akermin's proprietary breakthrough in the polymer encapsulation
of enzymes will lead to longer-lasting and more environmentally friendly
fuel cells and batteries, and will enhance the value of food, pharmaceutical
and chemical production. SEBS has demonstrated the capability to
immobilize numerous enzymes and proven the potential for Akermin's
technology in multibillion-dollar markets for enzyme-enabled products
and processes. To learn more, please visit www.akermin.com.
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