41st IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for the Bureau
Prof. Murray
Moo-Young (Canada)
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Prof. Murray Moo-Young (Canada)
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Prof. Moo-Young is on the Chemical Engineering faculty at the University
of Waterloo, where he holds a Research Chair in Industrial Biotechnology
and is also the UNESCO-designated director of the Microbial Resource
Centre.
Education and Career: Prof. Moo-Young received his university
education at London (B.Sc., Ph.D.), Toronto (M.A.Sc.), and Edinburgh
(postdoctorate). Before coming to Waterloo, he was a faculty member
at the Universities of Toronto and Western Ontario. Prof. Moo-Young
has many honors, including a FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society, Canada),
"the highest accolade of an academic in Canada"; the Engineering Medal
of the Association of Professional Engineers for "innovation"; and in
1999, the premier award of the Biochemical Technology Division of the
American Chemical Society, the Marvin Johnson award, for "outstanding
research contributions" to the subject. He is an active consultant to
industry and government agencies worldwide, including ICI, Dupont, Cetus/Chiron,
and NASA. To date, his work has produced nine patents, 286 papers, and
11 books, including the major multi-volume reference work, Comprehensive
Biotechnology. Prof. Moo-Young is editor of the journal Biotechnology
Advances. He has been featured as an inventor in media such as People
and New Scientist.
IUPAC Activities: Since 1978, Prof. Moo-Young has served IUPAC
through its Commission on Biotechnology (III.4), moving through the
ranks from National Representative, Titular Member, to Vice Chairman,
and now National Representative again. He has written articles for Pure
and Applied Chemistry; was on the advisory committees for several
IUPAC publications including the Glossary of Terms in Biotechnology;
and served on the scientific committees for most of the IUPAC-sponsored
series, International Biotechnology Congress (in Germany, Australia,
USA, France, India, Canada, and Japan).
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