Language

Biotechnology & medicine

Cristoph Schaffrath

Discovered an enzyme that could enable environmentally benign production of fluorine-containing compounds such as Teflon and Prozac, which are now made via noxious chemical processes.
Year Honored
2004
Organization
Business development manager, Onyx Scientific
Region
Global

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Expanded the genetic code in order to allow living cells to incorporate new, unnatural building blocks into the proteins that they make.
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