Dr. Jason Shih, professor of poultry science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is the recipient of two recent prestigious honors.

BioResource International Inc. (BRI), the biotechnology company that Shih co-founded, announced in July that he had been awarded the World’s Poultry Science Association Research Award, presented at the 23rd Annual World’s Poultry Congress in Brisbane, Australia. Then in August, BRI announced that Shih was awarded the Evonik Degussa Award for Achievement in Poultry Science at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Poultry Science Association in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

The World’s Poultry Science Association Research Award, which carries a cash award of approximately $12,000, is presented every four years to a scientist who has conducted scientific research that impacts poultry science worldwide, and the Evonik Degussa Award is given annually to a scientist who has made distinctive contributions to the advancement of poultry science.

Shih, BRI chairman, and his son, Dr. Giles Shih, BRI president, founded the enzyme technology company to commercialize Shih’s research discoveries at N.C. State University. They also announced this summer that BRI and Novus International Inc. had entered into a worldwide agreement making Novus the exclusive worldwide marketer for BRI’s patented enzyme technologies.

—Terri Leith