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  • Scientist of the Year

    Scientist of the Year honors a local scientist working on amazing projects that benefits the scientific world and gives back to Philadelphia’s innovative community.

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  • Kimberlee Sue Moran

    A teacher, a mentor, a scientist, Kimberlee Sue Moran has done a lot to bring the world of forensic science to the Philadelphia region, especially this past year. In October, she pulled in a ton of press by blowing up a transit bus as a field exercise for first responders in the Philadelphia.

    When she isn’t busy doing science, she helps encourage others to love it, working with the College of Physicians’ Karabots Junior Fellows and teaching forensic science at Rutgers-Camden.

  • Jordan Miller

    Jordan Miller created a method to make a 3D matrix of blood vessels to encourage cell growth… he’s researching ways to grow human tissues for organ replacement, by printing them.

    A significant contributor to the biomedical field and the hackerspace movement as a whole, Jordan is a true innovator.

  • Dr. Pat McGovern

    The “Indiana Jones of Ancient Ales,” Dr. Pat McGovern is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Scientific Director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the UPenn Museum.

    His work analyze and formulating recipes found in ancient tombs has led to some amazing brews in Dogfish Head Brewery’s Ancient Ales series.