Alexander Klibanov could mean:

Alexander L. (Sasha) Klibanov an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering
at the
University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

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Alexander Klibanov a professor of chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

 and bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 and a member of the National Academy of Science. He is most notable for greatly advancing the field of non-aqueous enzymology, that is, developing methods to allow enzyme

Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...

s to function in media such as organic solvents, rather than water.

External links

• MIT’s profile of Klibanov