Nediljko Budisa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nediljko Budisa

researcher

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1966

Place of Birth: Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia

Profession: chemist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nediljko "Ned" Budisa (Croatian: Nediljko Budiša; born November 21, 1966 in Šibenik, Croatia) 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”.