ICRI-BioM board member Bernd Nidetzky, Professor at the Institute for Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering at Technische Univesität Graz and CSO of acib GmbH was honored with the Elmer L. Garden Award – assigned by renowned trade journal “Biotechnology and Bioengineering.” The award was named after Elmer L Garden Jr., the “father of biochemical engineering”. Bernd Nidetzky is the only one of four Europeans who received this award since its foundation more than 20 years ago.