Irina Borodina

Prof. Irina Borodina directs a research group on Yeast Metabolic Engineering at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark (DTU website). Her research focuses on advancing methodologies for the sustainable production of chemicals using yeast cell factories. She received a Chemical Engineering degree from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania in 2001 and a PhD degree in Biotechnology from DTU in 2007. Dr. Borodina has authored 70 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited over 4,400 times, and she is co-inventor of 15 patent families. She is also co-founder and CSO of a start-up biotech company BioPhero that produces insect pheromones for environmentally friendly pest control. She received 2016 Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering, 2019 Equinor Prize, and was selected as a 2019 EU Women Innovator.