The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) announces that Declan J. Troy has been selected as the 2017 AMSA International Lectureship Award. The International Lectureship Award was established to honor an individual for internationally recognized contributions to the field of meat science and technology and is sponsored by AMSA. Troy will be honored at the AMSA 70th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) on Monday, June 19, 2017 during the Food Security – A Meat Science Story Concurrent Session in College Station, Texas.
Declan J. Troy is the Assistant Director of Research for Teagasc – the Irish Agriculture and Development Authority. He is also Director of Technology and Knowledge Transfer for the Teagasc Food Programme. Troy is a Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry and completed his post graduate studies at University College Dublin in 1986 investigating the biochemistry of muscle proteases as a function of pH.