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Phillip Green, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
The Procter & Gamble Company
Phillip Green received his B.A. from Knox College in 1978 majoring in biology and chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University in 1984. His thesis research was on the enzymology of membrane phospholipid biosynthesis in E. coli. Dr. Green was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at The California Institute of Technology from 1984 - 1987 studying the enzymology of tRNA processing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He joined the corporate biotechnology group at Procter & Gamble in 1987 as a protein chemist/enzymologist working on protein purification and enzyme engineering. In 1989, he began to explore the application of agricultural biotechnology to materials of interest to P&G, such as the development by Calgene of the first domestic high lauric acid Canola crop and the use of crops to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymers for consumer goods use. Dr. Green transferred to P&G Chemicals in 2000 to develop bioprocesses and materials produced from alternative feedstocks, and worked with Kaneka Corporation in the development of a fermentation process for the production of Nodax™ PHA.