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Dr. Bentley has an outstanding record of technical contributions in metabolic engineering, modeling of genetic circuits, cellular stress responses and E Coli protein expression, bioreactor design and optimization, and insect cell and Larvae/Baculovirus expression systems. His work is internationally recognized and he has received numerous awards, including the Schering-Plough Young Investigator Award from the Society of Industrial Microbiology in 1996, and the Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award from the American Society for Engineering Education in 1995. Dr. Bentley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, all in chemical engineering.
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William
E. Bentley was recently appointed director of the Bioengineering
Graduate Program and the Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor
in Engineering.
Bentley is a professor of chemical engineering, holding a
joint appointment with Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute
or MTECH,
which is formerly the Engineering Research Center and University
of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.