Chaitan Khosla

Chaitan Khosla

Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry

(650) 723-6538

ChEM-H / Neuro Building, Room W011


PhD in Chemical Engineering (California Institute of Technology)

Research interests in the Khosla Laboratory lie at the interface of chemistry and medicine. For the past several years, the lab has investigated the catalytic mechanisms of modular megasynthases such as polyketides synthases, with the concomitant of harnessing their programmable chemistry for preparing new antibiotics. More recently, the group has investigated the pathogenesis of celiac sprue, an HLA-DQ2 associated autoimmune disease of the small intestine.

Current Lab Members

Dillon Cogan

Dillon Cogan

Khosla Lab
Amita Gupta

Amita Gupta

Khosla Lab
Kat Guzman

Kat Guzman

Khosla Lab
Jake Hsu

Jake Hsu

Khosla Lab
Elise Loppinet

Elise Loppinet

Khosla Lab
Abby McShane

Abby McShane

Khosla Lab
Arek Melkonian

Arek Melkonian

Khosla Lab
Aleksandra Nivina

Aleksandra Nivina

Khosla Lab
Tom Privalsky

Tom Privalsky

Khosla Lab
Nielson Weng

Nielson Weng

Khosla Lab
Ray Zhuang

Ray Zhuang

Khosla Lab