Hitesh Gelli Praveenkumar

Hitesh Gelli Praveenkumar is a Postdoc at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability under the DTU Microbes Initiative at Danish Technical University (DTU). His research focuses on bacterial synthetic biology and microbial therapeutics.

Research Interests: Praveenkumar specializes in engineered probiotic yeast, intestinal absorption, and cell-penetrating peptides for therapeutic applications. His work targets metabolic and hormone-related diseases using advanced drug delivery systems.

Publications: Recent research includes:

• Optimizing macromolecule absorption via engineered yeast in 2025 (Trends in Biotechnology).
• Developing microbial therapeutics for peptide delivery in 2024 (PhD thesis).
• Investigating peptide-epithelial cell interactions in 2022 (Frontiers in Pharmacology).

Projects: Completed a PhD project (2021–2025) on microbial therapeutics for metabolic diseases, supervised by M. O. A. Sommer and R. Vazquez-Uribe.