People
Management Team
Professor Ed Tate
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Professor Ed Tate
Director
Professor Matthew Fuchter
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Professor Matthew Fuchter
Co-Director
Professor Iain McNeish
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Professor Iain McNeish
Co-Director
Department of Bioengineering
Dr Pedro Ballester
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Dr Pedro Ballester
Cancer, bacterial disease, antibiotic-resistance
Dr Sylvain Ladame
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Dr Sylvain Ladame
Diagnostics / Chemical biology / Biosensors
Dr Guy-Bart Stan
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Dr Guy-Bart Stan
Synthetic biology / Biological systems modelling / Antibiotic resistance
Dr Reiko J. Tanaka
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Dr Reiko J. Tanaka
Computational modelling / Machine learning analysis
Department of Chemistry
Professor Alan Armstrong
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Professor Alan Armstrong
Covalent fragments
Dr Rob Davies
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Dr Rob Davies
Drug delivery platforms
Dr Marco Di Antonio
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Dr Marco Di Antonio
DNA targeting / Epigenetic Drugs
Dr Jarvist Moore Frost
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Dr Jarvist Moore Frost
Graph neural networks; shape similarity; transition state analogues
Dr Lindsay Evans
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Dr Lindsay Evans
Antibiotic resistance / Antibiotic drug discovery
Professor Matthew Fuchter
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Professor Matthew Fuchter
Medicinal chemistry / Chemical biology / Photopharmacology
Professor David Klug
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Professor David Klug
Closed loop lead development / Personalised therapy / Tissue imaging / Novel structural biology
Dr Ben Schumann
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Dr Ben Schumann
Posttranslational modifications / Glycosylation / Cell-cell interactions
Professor Alan Spivey
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Professor Alan Spivey
Synthesis / Medicinal chemistry / Imaging agents
Professor Ed Tate
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Professor Ed Tate
Drug target deconvolution and target validation / Chemical biology / Medicinal chemistry
Professor Ramon Vilar
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Professor Ramon Vilar
Medicinal chemistry / Chemical Biology / Molecular Imaging
Dr Louise Walport
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Dr Louise Walport
Chemical biology / Peptide chemistry / Biophysics
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Professor David Carling
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Professor David Carling
AMPK in metabolic diseases and cancer
Professor Jesus Gil
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Professor Jesus Gil
Liver cancer, fibrosis, NASH
Professor Christian Speck
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Professor Christian Speck
Cryo-EM / DNA replication / Chromatin
Department of Life Sciences
Dr Konstantinos Beis
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Dr Konstantinos Beis
Membrane protein transporters / Histamine GPCRs / Antibiotic resistance
Professor Bernadette Byrne
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Professor Bernadette Byrne
Membrane transport mechanisms / Discovery of novel therapies to treat fungal disease
Dr Matthew Child
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Dr Matthew Child
In vivo phenotypic screening / Antimicrobial discovery and evolution \ Chemical probe development
Dr Michael Delves
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Dr Michael Delves
Malaria / Microscopy / High throughput screening
Professor Kurt Drickamer
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Professor Kurt Drickamer
Improved adjuvants for vaccine development / Inhibitors of autoimmunity / Adjuvant design
Professor Steve Matthews
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Professor Steve Matthews
Bacterial infections / Apicomplexan parasite disease / Apoptosis / Drug resistance
Dr Masahiro Ono
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Dr Masahiro Ono
T cells/ Immunotherapy
Professor Micheal Sternberg
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Professor Micheal Sternberg
Logic-based drug discovery / Protein modelling / Protein-protein interactions
National Heart and Lung Institute
Dr Vania Braga
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Dr Vania Braga
Cell-cell Adhesion Signalling
Dr Silvia A. Ferreira
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Dr Silvia A. Ferreira
Cell-matrix interactions, hydrogels and nanomedicine targeted delivery
Professor Kazuhiro Ito
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Professor Kazuhiro Ito
Bacerial diseases/inflammatory diseases/ageing/drug delivery
Professor Tony Magee
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Professor Tony Magee
Inhibitors of posttranslational processing of secreted signalling molecules, e.g. Hedgehogs, Wnts
Dr Michela Noseda
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Dr Michela Noseda
Cardiac Molecular Pathology
Professor Micheal Schneider
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Professor Micheal Schneider
Cardiovascular disease / Cell death / Kinases
Department of Medicine
Dr Sonya Abraham
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Dr Sonya Abraham
Inflammatory disease skin, gut, joint, brain
Dr Holger Auner
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Dr Holger Auner
Protein degradation and metabolism in multiple myeloma / Haematopoietic malignancies
Professor Sir Steve Bloom
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Professor Sir Steve Bloom
Obesity / Peptide drug delivery / Receptor pharmacology
Dr Andrew Edwards
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Dr Andrew Edwards
Novel antibacterial therapeutics
Professor Guido Franzoso
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Professor Guido Franzoso
Molecular biology/ Transcriptional regulation/ Cell signalling
Professor Gary Frost
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Professor Gary Frost
Nutrient based small molecules / GPCRs
Professor Anastasios Karadimitris
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Professor Anastasios Karadimitris
Transcription factors and chromatin binding proteins in multiple myeloma
Professor Paul Langford
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Professor Paul Langford
Tuberculosis / Antimicrobial peptides / Antibiotics
Dr Sandra Newton
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Dr Sandra Newton
Infectious diseases / Drug discovery / Anti-microbial peptides (AMP)
Dr Brian Robertson
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Dr Brian Robertson
Antimicrobial peptides / Tuberculosis / Imaging
Dr Alejandra Tomas
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Dr Alejandra Tomas
Chemical biology / Receptor signaling / Biosensors
Department of Surgery and Cancer
Professor Simak Ali
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Professor Simak Ali
Molecular Endocrine Oncology
Professor Charlotte Bevan
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Professor Charlotte Bevan
Nuclear receptors / Hormone-dependent cancers / Therapeutic delivery
Professor Robert Brown
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Professor Robert Brown
Epigenetics / Drug resistance / Cancer biomarkers
Professor Naomi Chayen
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Professor Naomi Chayen
Protein crystals / Crystallography
Professor Charles Coombes
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Professor Charles Coombes
CDK7 Nuclear Receptos Transcription
Dr Aylin Hanyaloglu
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Dr Aylin Hanyaloglu
G protein-coupled receptors
Professor Iain McNeish
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Professor Iain McNeish
Co-Director
Dr Jamie Meredith
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Dr Jamie Meredith
Disease areas: cancers
Dr Vassele Vassileva
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Dr Vassele Vassileva
Theragnostics, Oncology, Radioimmunotherapy
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Professor Paul French
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Professor Paul French
High content analysis/ Multidimensional fluorescence imaging