Venkatesh Balan
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Assistant Professor

Research Interest

At UH, Dr. Balan has established 'Protein and Carbohydrate Research Laboratory (PCRL)' that will use multidisciplinary approaches include chemistry, biology and engineering to produce bio-molecules useful for medicinal and industrial applications. His research projects are focused on the following areas: producing biochemical using genetic engineering platform; peptide expression system to produce biomolecules useful for biomedical and other biotechnology application; use complex carbohydrate to develop industrial enzymes; and microbial processing to produce food and nutritional products.

Office Location
Sugar Land Academic Building, Room 223