ABSTRACT
Michael S. Showell joined Procter & Gamble in 1984 in the Packaged Soap Division and has had various assignments with increasing responsibilities within P&G’s laundry and cleaning product research and development community. He currently is associate director of R&D in the Fabric & Home Care Technology Division at P&G’s Miami Valley Innovation Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. His research interests include: enzymes and their application in laundry and cleaning products, enzyme/detergent interactions, protein engineering to improve enzymes for use in consumer product applications, enzymatic synthesis of detergent ingredients, bioremediation, bioprocessing, and detergents. He is author or coauthor of a number of articles, book chapters, and presentations on the use of enzymes in laundry and cleaning products. In 1999 he was one of the recipients of the American Chemical Society award for Team Innovation. Mike received a B.S. in chemistry from Willamette University in 1978, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from Purdue University in 1980 and 1983, respectively.
