Hal Alper Named 2016 Emerging Inventor of the Year
Hal Alper, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been named the 2016 UT Emerging Inventor of the Year.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Hal Alper, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, has been named the 2016 Emerging Inventor of the Year by the UT Austin Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC).
A leader in the fields of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, his research has led him to develop a series of transcriptional control elements that provide newfound control of gene expression in cells, and he has also helped to establish an approach termed “promoter engineering.”
Alper received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Other honors he has received include the Young Investigator Award from ACS Biochemical Technology Division, the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Young Investigator Award, and the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering.
