Nediljko Budisa

Nediljko "Ned" Budisa
Ned in a TU Berlin Laboratory in 2012
Born (1966-11-21) 21 November 1966 (age 57)
NationalityCroatian
Alma materFaculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry, bioorganic chemistry, synthetic biology
InstitutionsTechnische Universität Berlin, University of Manitoba

Nediljko "Ned" Budisa (Croatian: Nediljko Budiša; born 21 November 1966) is a Croatian biochemist, professor and holder of the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) for chemical synthetic biology at the University of Manitoba. As pioneer in the areas of genetic code engineering and chemical synthetic biology (Xenobiology), his research has a wide range of applications in biotechnology and engineering biology in general. Being highly interdisciplinary, it includes bioorganic and medical chemistry, structural biology, biophysics and molecular biotechnology as well as metabolic and biomaterial engineering. He is the author of the only textbook in his research field: “Engineering the genetic code: expanding the amino acid repertoire for the design of novel proteins”.[1]

  1. ^ Budisa, Nediljko (2005). The book at the Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1002/3527607188. ISBN 9783527312436.