Howard Allaker Chase FREng is a British academic and

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. He is Head of the School of Technology and Professor of Biochemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. From 1998 to 2006 he was Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Chase has been a Fellow of the

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since 2005. He is also a Fellow of the

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, a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Chemist, and a

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. In 2010 he was awarded the Donald Medal, an award of the

, in recognition of his industrially related research in the field of bioseparations technology. Chase was an undergraduate (Natural Sciences Tripos), and a research student (biochemistry) at

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

, between 1972 and 1978. He held a research fellowship at

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, from 1978 to 1982. In 1984 he was elected to a fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he became director of studies in chemical engineering. He was tutor for graduate students 1987–1994, tutor 1994-1996 and senior tutor 1993–1996. He was awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize in 1993.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chase, Howard British chemical engineers Living people 1954 births Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge Chemical engineering professors at the University of Cambridge