Prof. Ananda Chakrabarty University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Ananda Chakrabarty is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He received his PhD from the University of Calcutta, India. His laboratory studies a family of proteins known as cupredoxins and cytochromes that are involved in bacterial electron transport. His... read moremost notable creation is a biology-based solution for cleaning up toxic spills using the generically engineered Pseudomonas (today classified as Burkholderia cepacia or B. cepacia).