People
Management Team
Professor Ed Tate

Professor Ed Tate
Director
Professor Matthew Fuchter

Professor Matthew Fuchter
Co-Director
Professor Iain McNeish

Professor Iain McNeish
Co-Director
Department of Bioengineering
Dr Sylvain Ladame

Dr Sylvain Ladame
Diagnostics / Chemical biology / Biosensors
Dr Guy-Bart Stan

Dr Guy-Bart Stan
Synthetic biology / Biological systems modelling / Antibiotic resistance
Dr Reiko J. Tanaka

Dr Reiko J. Tanaka
Computational modelling / Machine learning analysis
Department of Chemistry
Professor Alan Armstrong

Professor Alan Armstrong
Covalent fragments
Dr Rob Davies

Dr Rob Davies
Drug delivery platforms
Dr Marco Di Antonio

Dr Marco Di Antonio
DNA targeting / Epigenetic Drugs
Dr Lindsay Evans

Dr Lindsay Evans
Antibiotic resistance / Antibiotic drug discovery
Professor Matthew Fuchter

Professor Matthew Fuchter
Medicinal chemistry / Chemical biology / Photopharmacology
Professor David Klug

Professor David Klug
Closed loop lead development / Personalised therapy / Tissue imaging / Novel structural biology
Dr Ben Schumann

Dr Ben Schumann
Posttranslational modifications / Glycosylation / Cell-cell interactions
Professor Alan Spivey

Professor Alan Spivey
Synthesis / Medicinal chemistry / Imaging agents
Professor Ed Tate

Professor Ed Tate
Drug target deconvolution and target validation / Chemical biology / Medicinal chemistry
Professor Ramon Vilar

Professor Ramon Vilar
Medicinal chemistry / Chemical Biology / Molecular Imaging
Dr Louise Walport

Dr Louise Walport
Chemical biology / Peptide chemistry / Biophysics
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Professor David Carling

Professor David Carling
AMPK in metabolic diseases and cancer
Professor Jesus Gil

Professor Jesus Gil
Liver cancer, fibrosis, NASH
Professor Christian Speck

Professor Christian Speck
Cryo-EM / DNA replication / Chromatin
Department of Life Sciences
Dr Konstantinos Beis

Dr Konstantinos Beis
Membrane protein transporters / Histamine GPCRs / Antibiotic resistance
Professor Bernadette Byrne

Professor Bernadette Byrne
Membrane transport mechanisms / Discovery of novel therapies to treat fungal disease
Dr Matthew Child

Dr Matthew Child
In vivo phenotypic screening / Antimicrobial discovery and evolution \ Chemical probe development
Dr Michael Delves

Dr Michael Delves
Malaria / Microscopy / High throughput screening
Professor Kurt Drickamer

Professor Kurt Drickamer
Improved adjuvants for vaccine development / Inhibitors of autoimmunity / Adjuvant design
Professor Steve Matthews

Professor Steve Matthews
Bacterial infections / Apicomplexan parasite disease / Apoptosis / Drug resistance
Dr Masahiro Ono

Dr Masahiro Ono
T cells/ Immunotherapy
Professor Micheal Sternberg

Professor Micheal Sternberg
Logic-based drug discovery / Protein modelling / Protein-protein interactions
National Heart and Lung Institute
Dr Vania Braga

Dr Vania Braga
Cell-cell Adhesion Signalling
Dr Silvia A. Ferreira

Dr Silvia A. Ferreira
Cell-matrix interactions, hydrogels and nanomedicine targeted delivery
Professor Tony Magee

Professor Tony Magee
Inhibitors of posttranslational processing of secreted signalling molecules, e.g. Hedgehogs, Wnts
Professor Micheal Schneider

Professor Micheal Schneider
Cardiovascular disease / Cell death / Kinases
Department of Medicine
Dr Sonya Abraham

Dr Sonya Abraham
Inflammatory disease skin, gut, joint, brain
Dr Holger Auner

Dr Holger Auner
Protein degradation and metabolism in multiple myeloma / Haematopoietic malignancies
Professor Sir Steve Bloom

Professor Sir Steve Bloom
Obesity / Peptide drug delivery / Receptor pharmacology
Dr Andrew Edwards

Dr Andrew Edwards
Novel antibacterial therapeutics
Professor Guido Franzoso

Professor Guido Franzoso
Molecular biology/ Transcriptional regulation/ Cell signalling
Professor Gary Frost

Professor Gary Frost
Nutrient based small molecules / GPCRs
Professor Anastasios Karadimitris

Professor Anastasios Karadimitris
Transcription factors and chromatin binding proteins in multiple myeloma
Professor Paul Langford

Professor Paul Langford
Tuberculosis / Antimicrobial peptides / Antibiotics
Dr Sandra Newton

Dr Sandra Newton
Infectious diseases / Drug discovery / Anti-microbial peptides (AMP)
Dr Brian Robertson

Dr Brian Robertson
Antimicrobial peptides / Tuberculosis / Imaging
Dr Alejandra Tomas

Dr Alejandra Tomas
Chemical biology / Receptor signaling / Biosensors
Department of Surgery and Cancer
Professor Simak Ali

Professor Simak Ali
Molecular Endocrine Oncology
Professor Charlotte Bevan

Professor Charlotte Bevan
Nuclear receptors / Hormone-dependent cancers / Therapeutic delivery
Professor Robert Brown

Professor Robert Brown
Epigenetics / Drug resistance / Cancer biomarkers
Professor Naomi Chayen

Professor Naomi Chayen
Protein crystals / Crystallography
Professor Charles Coombes

Professor Charles Coombes
CDK7 Nuclear Receptos Transcription
Dr Aylin Hanyaloglu

Dr Aylin Hanyaloglu
G protein-coupled receptors
Professor Iain McNeish

Professor Iain McNeish
Co-Director
Dr Jamie Meredith

Dr Jamie Meredith
Disease areas: cancers
Dr Vassele Vassileva

Dr Vassele Vassileva
Theragnostics, Oncology, Radioimmunotherapy
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Professor Paul French

Professor Paul French
High content analysis/ Multidimensional fluorescence imaging