Prof. Dr. Sai Reddy

Biography

 Since 2012, Prof. Sai Reddy is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at ETH Zurich in the Deptartment of Biosystems Science & Engineering (D-BSSE, Basel, Switzerland). He is the principle investigator of the Laboratory for Systems Immunotechnology (http://www.bsse.ethz.ch/lsi/), whose research is focused on the nascent field of experimental systems immunology, which is at the intersection of Biomolecular Engineering, Systems Biology, and Immunology. Prof. Reddy holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA). In 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. at Ecolé Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Bioengineering and Biotechnology in, where his research was centered on developing a novel nanoparticle vaccine technology, of which he was awarded KPMG tomorrow’s market award.  Prof. Reddy then moved to University of Texas, Austin (USA) for his post-doctoral research, where he worked on protein and antibody engineering. This work led to the development of a breakthrough technology allowing monoclonal antibody discovery without screening, which involves the combination of high-throughput DNA sequencing, Bioinformatics, and Synthetic Biology and importantly, demonstrated how Systems Immunology can impact Biotechnology.  Prof. Reddy’s research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals of high-impact, including Nature Biotechnology and PNAS, USA. He is also co-inventor of three patents related to nanoparticle vaccines, antibody engineering, and antibody discovery.

Research Interest

 Biomolecular Engineering