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C&EN Talks with Chemist-cum-manager

Werner Mueller made his way back to the
lab by founding his own process Research
and Development firm.

CHEMICAL MARKETING REPORTER

INNOCENTIVE Inc.,-the Eli Lilly and Company-backed Internet R&D venture has announced its first "wet" chemistry solutions.
The first "wet" chemistry award of $25,000, was made to retired Head of Research, Werner Mueller, for submitting what InnoCentive calls a "breakthrough pathway" for the synthesis of 4-(4-hydroxyphenyl) butanoic acid. Dr. Mueller is the founder and president of CHD Technologies Inc., a process R&D company for agricultural and pharmaceutical intermediates.