Source: NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 3/10/21


Probiotics pioneer Todd R. Klaenhammer, an NC State faculty member for 40 years and the first food scientist to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, died March 6 at age 69. Klaenhammer, an international expert on lactic acid bacteria used in starter cultures for dairy foods and in health-enhancing probiotics, retired in 2017 as William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Food Science.  He had visited campus recently to tour a new lab, a day before he was unexpectedly hospitalized, said Rodolphe Barrangou, who holds a named professorship established in Klaenhammer’s honor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences. 

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