{"id":8152,"date":"2021-02-25T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:56:19","slug":"president-james-liao-awarded-the-israel-prime-ministers-prize-for-innovative-bio-energy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/8152\/","title":{"rendered":"President James Liao Awarded the Israel Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Innovative Bio-Energy Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Academia Sinica President James Liao had been awarded the 2020 Samson-Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Energy and Smart Mobility for Transportation, with his research being praised for exhibiting \u201ca combination of basic research and applied research at a high level\u201d and achieving \u201ca world-leading breakthrough research in the field of bio-energy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Upon learning of this news, President Liao said, \u201cstudying synthetic biology removes the limits of current methods for carbon utilization, and significantly improves the efficiency of producing biological fuels and chemical products.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Liao is a pioneer in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, and microbiological synthetic fuel. He has received numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science, and the White House \u201cChampion of Change\u201d for innovations in renewable energy from the United States. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, US National Academy of Sciences, and Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Israel has won acclaim for its innovativeness, with its government establishing the Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Energy and Smart Mobility for Transportation to eliminate its dependency on petroleum and encourage innovative research on alternative energy. The Award will be presented by the Prime Minister of Israel at the annual Smart Mobility Summit at Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

The list for the winners can be read online at: https:\/\/www.fuelchoicessummit.com\/award\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academia Sinica President James Liao had been awarded the 2020 Samson-Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Energy and Smart Mobility for Transportation, with his research being praised for exhibiting \u201ca combination of basic research and applied research at a high level\u201d and achieving \u201ca world-leading breakthrough research in the field of bio-energy\u201d. Upon learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}