LS9, the South San Francisco-based developer of renewable petroleum, said today it has received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the highest honor given by the Environmental Protection Agency. Winners are selected by a panel of experts pulled together by the American Chemical Society. LS9 co-founder and director Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures traveled to Washington to accept the award today. I wrote about LS9 and its strategy in a profile last week.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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