Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Anil Kumar Challa

Anil Kumar Challa

Senior Scientist

School of Natural Sciences


Contact Information

  • Developmental Genetics, Genome Editing, and Undergraduate Biology Education

  • Ph.D., The Ohio State Univeristy
  • B.Sc., Banaras Hindu University

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California San Deigo, La Jolla, CA (USA)
  • Co-Founder and Education Director, Indigenese Biotechnologies, Hyderabad, India
  • Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (USA)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (USA)
  • Instructor, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (USA)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (USA)
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL (USA)
  • Visiting Scientist, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA
  • Visiting Scientist, Dr. Reddy's Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad, India

  • Co-Principal Investigator on National Science Foundation (USA) Grants on CRISPR in the College and High School Classrooms [Award # 1916486 (2019), 1823595 (2018), 2013181 (2020)].
  • Steering Committee Member in the Research Coordination Network-UBE: Bringing CRISPR-Cas9 technologies to the undergraduate classroom: an undergraduate instructors' network (NSF Award 2120417, 2021).