Dean Brady is Professor of Biocatalysis at the University of the Witwatersrand. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Biochemistry from Rhodes University, under the supervision of Professor John Duncan, working on enzymes in the leather industry and accumulation of pollutant metals by yeast. He then joined AECI (African Explosives and Chemical Industries) in 1994, working on R&D in industrial biotechnology. He then moved to the CSIR (South Africa) working in private and public funded contract R&D as a Research Group Leader and Chief Research Scientist and specialising in Biocatalysis. In 2001 he joined Professor Roger Sheldon at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) as a Visiting Research Fellow.  He subsequently moved to the University of the Witwatersrand in 2013 as the Head of the School of Chemistry (2013-2023). His research interests are the application of biotechnology in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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