WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The fourth annual George Washington Carver Award will recognize an individual who has demonstrated significant and innovative accomplishments that have employed industrial biotechnology to facilitate the advancement of a biobased economy and industrial sustainability. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2011 George Washington Carver Award, which will be presented at the 2011 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing. The world’s largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, renewable chemicals and biomass runs May 8-11 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
