Dr Ahsan Islam

Trained as a bioengineer, Dr Islam’s research focuses on the design, re-design, and implementation of biological processes to tackle important societal challenges, including bioproduction of ‘green’ petrochemicals from gases, mitigating nutrient pollution from the environment, and developing novel chemotherapies for cancer treatment. He uses both computational and experimental approaches to engineer ‘cellular metabolism’, namely bioprocesses to achieve the research objectives.