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Professor Kyongbum Lee Receives
Jay Bailey Young Investigator Best Paper Award
October 10, 2006
 Professor Kyongbum Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Best Paper Award in Metabolic Engineering. The award was established in honor of Jay Bailey, a visionary of future directions in biotechnological research and a brilliant contributor to the founding and advancement of the field of Metabolic Engineering. Award winners have advanced the frontiers of metabolic engineering through originality and creativity of experimental or computational concept application.
Professor Lee is recognized for his article “Identification of distributed metabolic objectives in the hypermetabolic liver by flux and energy balance analysis,” which appeared in the January 2006 issue of Metabolic Engineering and has been praised for its significant advances to the field. Dr. Martin L. Yarmush, Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School, sponsored Professor Lee’s nomination for the Bailey award. He writes “this paper is among the very first to utilize pathway thermodynamic constraints to infer the metabolic objectives of a multi-functional metabolic tissue based on real, experimental data.” In his nomination letter, he confirms “Kyong’s analysis is the first to explicitly account for the energetic coupling between reactions” and demonstrates that he is “poised to become a leader in our discipline.” Professor David Kaplan, Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts University and a frequent research collaborator with Professor Lee, writes “I cannot think of a better person who is able to integrate metabolic engineering into biomaterials research.”
The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department of Tufts University offers warmest congratulations to Professor Lee on his remarkable achievement.
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