講者：普渡大學化工系系主任Prof. Sangtae Kim
演講題目：Deliberate Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships:A New Frontier for Translational Research at Land Grant Universities
演講時間：12/27(五) 下午2:00 – 3:30
演講地點：鄭江樓北棟-慶琅廳(N202)
主持人：林祥泰教授
摘要:
Deliberate Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships:
A New Frontier for Translational Research at Land Grant Universities
Sangtae Kim
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head
Charles D. Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
Abstract
“Translational research” is the partner in ascendency in the yin and yang between basic research as the quest for new knowledge and translational research as the application of scientific principles towards the solution of societal problems. Even the gold standard for sponsorship of basic research, the National Science Foundation, places greater emphasis on successful execution of translational research in the proposal reviews (and management of cooperative agreements, e.g., Engineering Research Centers). This emphasis on translation, while a cause for concern with respect to the future of support for basic research, strikes a resonant chord with the founding charter of land grant universities such as Purdue. In this context, the speaker presents personal experiences with “deliberate innovation” strategies for crossing the “valley of death” between basic research and commercialization for societal impact. Recent large scale projects on the transformation of shale gases to liquids and a novel manufacturing processes for medical isotopes will be presented.
講者簡介:
Sangtae Kim is the Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head and Distinguished
Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University where he is
engaged in rational computer-aided drug discovery research. A native of
Seoul who was raised in Montreal, Dr. Kim earned simultaneous BSc/MSc
degrees (1979) in chemical engineering from the California Institute of
Technology and a PhD (1983) from Princeton. He started his career at the
Department of Chemical Engineering at UW-Madison in computational
microhydrodynamics, rising to the rank of Wisconsin Distinguished
Professor in eight years. In 1997, Dr. Kim left Madison to work in the
pharmaceutical industry as Vice President of R&D Information Technology,
first with Warner Lambert’s Parke-Davis Division and then later with the
Lilly Research Laboratories of Eli Lilly. He returned to academia in
2003 to become a distinguished professor at Purdue University and to
serve at the U.S. National Science Foundation (on leave from Purdue) as
the inaugural Division Director for the national cyberinfrastructure
programs (2004-2005). Among many honors, Dr. Kim has received the 1993
Allan P. Colburn Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,
was inducted in 2001 as a member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering and received the 2013 Ho Am Prize in Engineering from the
Samsung/Ho Am Foundation.
