Doug Cameron Honored with Raphael Katzen Award for Distinguished Contributions for the Deployment and Commercialization of Biotechnology

Piper Jaffray Investment Management chief science advisor, Doug Cameron, will be awarded the 2009 Raphael Katzen Award on Wednesday night at the 31^st 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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