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 Todd
R. Klaenhammer obtained degrees in Microbiology (B.S), and Food Science
(M.S. & Ph.D) from the University of Minnesota.
In 1978, he joined the North Carolina State
University and currently holds faculty appointments in the Departments
of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences; and in the Departments of
Microbiology and Genetics.
His group has published over 250 articles on
dairy lactic acid bacteria and their bacteriophages, and probiotic
cultures and their genomic traits.
Todd is Fellow in the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology,
the Institute of Food Technologists, and the American Dairy Science
Association.
In 2001, he was elected into the National
Academy of Sciences. In 2009, the Board of Governors of the 17 campus
University of North Carolina System, awarded his group the prestigious
O. Max Gardner award for research.
In 2010, the International Dairy Federation
awarded him the Elli Metchnikoff award for research in biotechnology.
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