CBiF Executive Committee

The CBiF is advised by an Executive Committee

John is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.  His research interests relate to the physiochemical, genetic and computational analysis of posttranscriptional gene expression.

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Hagan is Professor of Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. His research interests include engineering membrane channels and pores, high-throughput screening with membrane proteins, biomolecular materials by design, caged peptides and proteins for signal transduction research.

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Nick Westwood is a Reader in Chemistry at the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. His current work includes synthetic chemistry, natural products, chemical genetics, interdisciplinary research and diversity-oriented synthesis. His main focus is in developing "synthetic blueprints" that encode for large collections of novel chemical entities.

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Florian Hollfelder is a physical organic chemist by training, who now works at the biological interface as a Group Leader in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include biomimetic catalysts, enzyme mechanism, directed evolution of enzymes and protein-protein interactions. 

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Dr Andy Merritt is Director of High Throughput Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline, a role which encompasses global responsibility for both outsource support for lead discovery chemistry and for the provision of molecular tools for target validation. His background has been in the application of combinatorial chemistry and technologies to drug discovery since the development of the approach in the early 1990s. Andy sits on the RSC Industry and Technology Forum Executive and was a cofounder of the High Throughput Chemistry and New Technologies Interest Group, holding the role of secretary between 2001 and 2005.  He was the industrial organiser of the RSC medicinal chemistry summer school for the period 1999 to 2003. He is a member of the Royal Society Higher Education Working Group, which is currently undertaking a pilot project to develop a deeper understanding of the way in which science and mathematics courses must evolve to meet future skills challenges. He is also a European regional editor for the journal Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, and presents lectures to undergraduates and postgraduates on drug discovery and new technologies at UK universities (Imperial College London, Sussex University, Reading) and at the RSC Medicinal Chemistry summer school.

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Weng Chan is Associate Professor and Reader in Chemical Biology in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. His current research themes include the design and development of new peptoid and small molecule chemical tools for the interrogation of emerging biological systems, especially in the area of Gram-positive bacterial pathogenicity, neurodegeneration and cancer cell biology. Examples of his on-going work are: (i) to advance our understanding, at the molecular level, the staphylococcal sensor kinase AgrC and the multimodular enzyme AgrB; (ii) to develop a spectrum of fluorescent reagents for proteome functional analysis and nanosensing devices; and (iii) to discover new bio-imaging reagents that target surrogate biomarkers.

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Rebecca Goss holds a Royal Society B.P. Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship and a proleptic lectureship within the School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy at UEA. Rebecca is interested in the biosynthesis of natural products and in how these biosynthetic pathways may be harnessed to generate designer natural products with improved medicinal properties.

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Dipak Sarker is Associate Professor in Physical and Analytical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy and Biosciences at the University of Brighton. His research interests include investigation of many-molecule-assemblies, medicinal nanotechnology, structured dispersions and physical characterisation of polymer adsorption and its relevancy to biophysics, smart colloids, industrial formulations and diverse aspects of natural systems associated with biological chemistry

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Emma Raven is a Reader in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leicester. Her research in chemical biology focuses on using protein engineering techniques to examine catalytic activity and function in heme enzymes.

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Darren Flower is a Jenner Research Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. His research interests embrace informatics in all its forms – cheminformatics, bioinformatics, molecular modeling, and knowledge management - but focuses primarily on its application of immunoinformatics to vaccinology. Dr Flower is a RSC Fellow and chairs the society’s Molecular Modelling group.

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