Episode #31: Dr. Kang Lan Tee talks about bioplastics, biochemical engineering, and entrepreneurship

Dr. Kang Lan Tee is recognized for her work in directed evolution, protein engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and sustainable biomanufacturing. Her contributions to the field include new molecular methods, novel promoters, improved enzymes and enhanced microbial strains for sustainable feedstock utilization. In 2019, she was awarded the Global Challenges Research Fellowship to investigate the use of agricultural waste for bioplastic production in collaboration with The National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Thailand. She has authored 30 publications in high-impact journals such as Nucleic Acid Research, Angewandte Chemie and PNAS  and authored the first textbook on protein engineering. As an innovator-entrepreneur, she founded SeSaM-Biotech GmbH (2009, Germany) to deliver enzyme solutions to the biotech industry and Evolutor Ltd (2022, UK) to engineer robust industrial strain for biomanufacturing.