Gregory Stephanopoulos#
| Membership Number: | 6852 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://stephanopouloslab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6909-4568 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 MIT, W.H. Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering
- 2013 - 2014 Milano Polytechnico, Department of Chemical engineering, Visiting Professor
- 2006 - 2007 ETH Zurich, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering and DTU, Department of Chemical Eng'g, Visiting Professor
- 2000 - 2005 MIT, Bayer Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering
- 2000 - 2013 MIT-Harvard Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), Professor
- 1997 Harvard University, MGH, Lecturer on Surgery and Bioengineering
- 1990 - 1997 MIT, Associate Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center (BPEC)
- 1985 - 2000 MIT, Professor of Chemical Engineering
- 1983 - 1985 California Institute of Technology, Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemical Engineering
- 1978 - 1983 California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Fields of Scholarship
- Sustainability
- Fundamentals of metabolism
- Cell culture engineering
- Metabolic engineering
- Modeling
- Alternative substrates and feedstocks
- Metabolic pathway engineering applications to aminoacid, alcohol, glycol, biopolymer, isoprenoid and vitamin production
- Elucidated metabolic rewiring in cancer cells using isotopic tracers
- Industrial biotechnology
- Synthetic biology
Honours and Awards
- 2023 National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Elected Member
- 2021 Naming of the “G. Stephanopoulos” Metabolic Engineering award by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES)
- 2017 Novozymes Award for Excellence in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering
- 2016 Eric and Sheila Samson $1M Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation
- 2015 Elected President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- 2014 William H. Walker Award of AIChE for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature
- 2013 John Fritz Medal of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES)
- 2012 Siegfried Prize from University of Zurich-ETH Zurich for outstanding accomplishments on process chemistry
- 2012 Elected Fellow of the AIChE
- 2011 ENI Prize in Renewable and non-Conventional Energy
- 2011 Elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens
- 2010 George Washington Carver Award, BIO (Biotech Industry Organization)
- 2010 ACS E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
- 2007 AIChE Founders Award
- 2003 National Academy of Engineering (NAE), elected Member
- 2001 AIChE R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering
- 2001 Marvin J. Johnson Award of the American Chemical Society
- 1992 Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
- 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award
- 1982 Dreyfus Foundation Teacher Scholar Award
