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Design News, June, 2003

PIP REEDER FERMENTING BIOTECH STUDIES "Fermentation process design" may sound like a euphemism for a brewmaster's work, but it's actually the engineering effort required for the biomedical development of polyketides needed to produce pharmaceuticals that treat cancer and infectious diseases.

Philippa Reeder, Pip forshort, wants to enter the field of fermentation process design when she graduates from the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in chemical engineering this year. While at Berkeley, she led the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as president. Reeder's next stop is probably graduate school, but she may put off that decision to spend time at Kosan Biosciences in Hayward, CA. "Kosan is where I got my direction," says...

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