Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan
management Team
Benitec Biopharma
Australia
Biography
Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan joined Benitec in Aug 2015 and serves as the lead scientist on the team developing novel DNA delivery technologies for Benitec’s ddRNAi pipeline. Badri’s expertise is in the areas of bioengineering and drug delivery. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he developed peptide-based nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. He then pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he investigated mechanisms of brain tumor invasion using novel culture models for visualizing 3D cell migration. He also developed an innovative delivery technology for cell therapy that resulted in increased cell survival after transplantation.
Research Interest
Research interest on Biotechnology