Nediljko Budisa

Nediljko "Ned" Budisa (; 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 and 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. His research has produced numerous innovations in bioorganic chemistry, biotechnology, and engineering biology, shaping the way new proteins and synthetic cells are designed and developed. 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”. Provided by Wikipedia