The Southeastern Regional Industrial Innovation Award

ACS Regional Industrial Innovation Awards Program (RIIA) sponsored by the ACS Corporation Associates celebrates the successful innovations of industrial chemists and chemical engineers that contribute to the health of their local and regional economy and the corporate leadership for its advancement of a healthy economy. Awards are given to individuals and teams whose creative innovations have contributed to the commercial success of their company and, consequently, to the good of the community and society.

Award

The award consists of a really really really nice certificate.

Eligibility and Application Procedures

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Prior Recipients

2009 -- Carlos Lopez. For technical innovations in pharmaceutical manufacturing at Bristol-MyersSquibb in Puerto Rico.
2008 -- No Award.

Current Awardee

Carlos Lopez

Dr. Carlos Lopez is Managing Technical Director for Barceloneta and Humacao, Puerto Rico operations for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Known throughout the BMS organization as an innovator, he applied new analytical techniques such as on-line MS, NIR, Raman, and Lasentec, to improve yield, product quality, and cycle time. His “DEP” (diethyl phosphite) process invention transformed an impurity into the desired intermediate, thereby increasing overall yield and capacity. DEP is the first process invented, developed, validated, patented, and implemented and within a Puerto-Rican pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.