Head of Analytical and Strain R&D
DSM Nutrition Products
Columbia, MD, United States
Dr. Frank Yifan Xu is the head of Analysis and Strain Improvement R&D of DSM Columbia Biotech Center in USA, where he is leading the analytical, omics, automation, HTS and strain improvement departments for biosciences and process innovation. In addition, Frank also serves as the global lead on Microbiome analysis and is the project director for Microbiome Digital and Integrative Biology at DSM.
Prior to joining DSM, Frank was head of Biochemistry at DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences, where he led the multi-disciplinary team of automation, HTS, protein engineering and metabolic engineering. Before that, Frank was the principal investigator at DuPont Central R&D, where he built and led their first metabolomics platform. In his roles at DuPont, Frank contributed to the commercialization of multiple products in the businesses of biofuels, biomaterials, home and personal care, animal nutrition, human health and microbiome.
Frank got his PhD degree in Chemical Biology at Princeton University, USA. He holds ~10 US patents and was the author of >15 scientific papers in top journals including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Cell and Molecular Systems Biology.
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