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New Awards for Innovation Presented by Royal Society of Chemistry
January 16, 2003New awards for innovation were presented by the Royal Society of Chemistry at a ceremony which took place in Burlington House last night, Thursday 16 January.
Two Teamwork in Innovation Awards went to teams from Avecia, Huddersfield and Thomas Swan & Co., Consett for Development of Catalytic Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Technology Catalysts and Production-scale Chemistry in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide respectively.
The Entrepreneur of the Year Award went to Dr. Victor Christou, Opsys Ltd., for Invention and Commercialisation of New Materials and Device Structures for the Development of Small to Medium Sized Custom Displays for the Portable Electronics Industry.
Avecia Process Technology is an expert in Speciality Chemicals including particular pharmaceutical manufacturing and process development. Analysis of customer requirements indicated a strong need for chiral alcohols and amines and a team of around 12, led by Dr. John Blacker, initiated a project to develop the technology required to enable transfer hydrogenation in the development of these products in 1998.
The project was managed by concurrently developing the technology and commercialising it by applying it to pharmaceuticals in development. It has received world-wide acclaim from the pharmaceutical process community and Avecia are confident that application of the technology will lead to substantial growth of their Fine Chemicals business.
Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. developed a continuous plant for supercritical reaction chemistry in carbon dioxide. Supercritical carbon dioxide is an attractive medium for the cleaner synthesis of Fine Chemicals, and the chemistry represented a new area for both the company and the University of Nottingham with whom it collaborated, and has resulted in the filing of 7 patents and a similar number of publications in major journals including Nature and Science.
The project was managed jointly by Dr. Stephen K. Ross at Consett and Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham. The team comprised 5 researchers from each institution and has culminated in the opening of a unique full size plant by Lord Sainsbury, Secretary of State for Science on July 12, 2002.
Highly commended in this category was a team from PiezOptic Ltd., Ashford, Kent for a project entitled Research Development and Commercialisation of a Novel Piezo-optical Styrene Sensor Incorporating a Solid-phase Tribromide Reagent.
Occupational exposure to styrene monomer is widespread and poses serious health risks to employees in a variety of industries, particularly in the glass-fibre reinforced plastics industry. The team of 6, led by Dr. Steve Ross, fulfilled a proven market requirement for an effective personal monitor for styrene.
Dr. Victor Christou, winner of the Entrepreneur of the year Award, initiated Opsys in August 1997. Opsys develops a diverse portfolio of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technologies with a strong emphasis on innovative new materials. OLEDs constitute a new kind of flat panel display technology, which produces bright and sharp full colour images in a display which is thin and lightweight.
The company, spun out from Oxford University, has since its birth expanded from 4 people to around 70 and has raised over $35 million. With corporate headquarters and a research facility in Oxford and an office in Tokyo, Opsys has the only European license to Kodak display technology and are selling prototype area colour displays to mobile phone, pda and automotive display industries with a view to commercialisation in off the shelf products within a year.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Avecia Process Technology is an expert in Speciality Chemicals including particular pharmaceutical manufacturing and process development. Analysis of customer requirements indicated a strong need for chiral alcohols and amines and a team of around 12, led by Dr. John Blacker, initiated a project to develop the technology required to enable transfer hydrogenation in the development of these products in 1998.
The project was managed by concurrently developing the technology and commercialising it by applying it to pharmaceuticals in development. It has received world-wide acclaim from the pharmaceutical process community and Avecia are confident that application of the technology will lead to substantial growth of their Fine Chemicals business.
Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. developed a continuous plant for supercritical reaction chemistry in carbon dioxide. Supercritical carbon dioxide is an attractive medium for the cleaner synthesis of Fine Chemicals, and the chemistry represented a new area for both the company and the University of Nottingham with whom it collaborated, and has resulted in the filing of 7 patents and a similar number of publications in major journals including Nature and Science.
The project was managed jointly by Dr. Stephen K. Ross at Consett and Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham. The team comprised 5 researchers from each institution and has culminated in the opening of a unique full size plant by Lord Sainsbury, Secretary of State for Science on July 12, 2002.
Highly commended in this category was a team from PiezOptic Ltd., Ashford, Kent for a project entitled Research Development and Commercialisation of a Novel Piezo-optical Styrene Sensor Incorporating a Solid-phase Tribromide Reagent.
Occupational exposure to styrene monomer is widespread and poses serious health risks to employees in a variety of industries, particularly in the glass-fibre reinforced plastics industry. The team of 6, led by Dr. Steve Ross, fulfilled a proven market requirement for an effective personal monitor for styrene.
Dr. Victor Christou, winner of the Entrepreneur of the year Award, initiated Opsys in August 1997. Opsys develops a diverse portfolio of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technologies with a strong emphasis on innovative new materials. OLEDs constitute a new kind of flat panel display technology, which produces bright and sharp full colour images in a display which is thin and lightweight.
The company, spun out from Oxford University, has since its birth expanded from 4 people to around 70 and has raised over $35 million. With corporate headquarters and a research facility in Oxford and an office in Tokyo, Opsys has the only European license to Kodak display technology and are selling prototype area colour displays to mobile phone, pda and automotive display industries with a view to commercialisation in off the shelf products within a year.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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