Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering Constellation

Rensselaer’s growing program in biocatalysis and metabolic engineering draws on the expertise of interdisciplinary teams to explore and manipulate metabolic pathways to create new bioproducts for use in medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, environmental cleanup, and other fields.

Robert J. Linhardt , a world-leading carbohydrate chemist, is the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr. ’59 Senior Constellation Professor of Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering. He is leading a team of researchers who recently found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and mosquitoes. If this link in the chain of infection can be broken at its source — the mosquito — then the spread of malaria could be stopped without drugs. Read more..

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