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Published on: 1/23/2008
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Amyris Names Joel Cherry Senior Vice President Research Programs and Operations
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2008 - Amyris today announced the appointment of Joel Cherry, Ph.D., to the new position of senior vice president, research programs and operations.
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Cherry will be responsible for coordinating technical programs aimed at commercializing Amyris' renewable products including diesel, chemicals and jet fuel.
Cherry joins other technical team members Jack Newman, Ph.D., co-founder, who continues as head of research and development; and Jeff Lievense, senior vice president, who oversees process development and manufacturing and Neil Renninger, CTO.
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"We're very pleased to have Joel join our team at Amyris," said John Melo, CEO of Amyris.
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"Joel has a proven track record of managing large scale, industrial biotech programs and his experience will be a tremendous asset as we move from research to commercialization of our renewable products."
Prior to joining Amyris, Cherry was senior director of bioenergy biotechnology at Novozymes.
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During his tenure, Cherry was a member of the R&D management team specializing in protein engineering and directed evolution technologies.
He was also principal investigator and director of the BioEnergy Project, an effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to reduce the cost of enzymes used in converting biomass to sugar.
This work was awarded an R&D 100 Award, Scientific American Top 50 Award, and a Frost and Sullivan Emerging Technology Award.
"I am excited to be joining Amyris, a company at the forefront of synthetic biology with much to contribute to the world's quest for cost-effective renewable fuels," said Cherry.
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Cherry has authored over 30 research papers and book chapters and is an inventor on more than 25 issued patents in the fields of directed evolution and protein engineering.