Professor Pal Maliga was elected as Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.
PISCATAWAY, NJ, March 01, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Professor Pal Maliga has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Maliga earned a Master of Science in genetics and microbiology in 1969 from Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. In 1972 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the university Szeged, in Hungary. He began his career as junior scientist for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1982 he moved to the United States, where he was research director for Advanced Genetic Sciences, Inc., a biotech start-up in the San Francisco bay area between 1983-1988. Currently, he is distinguished professor of plant biology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.
A specialist in engineering the chloroplast genomes, Dr. Maliga has been honored with several awards throughout his career. He received the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey, and won the Lawrance Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology from the American Society of Plant Biologists. He also was elected as Inventor of the Year by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.
As part of his dedication to his field, Dr. Maliga is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A naturally curious individual, Dr. Maliga looks forward to learning more about nature and creating new tools to benefit society. His previous research resulted in a technology that is used to improve the efficiency of converting sunlight into biomass or to incorporate new synthetic biochemical pathways in plants. As such, this technology can be used in a relatively small number of species, and he plans to expand his methods for all crops.
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