Centre for Drug Discovery staff
We are a group of academics and postdoctoral researchers from the fields of chemistry and life sciences.
Our responsibilities include:
Teaching:
Centre Directors
Dr Alex Cresswell, Reader, Department of Chemistry
Research themes: organic synthesis, photo & flow chemistry, new lead-like chemical space
Dr Scott Lovell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Life Sciences
Research themes: chemical biology, covalent inhibitors, peptide chemistry
Scientific Advisory Board
- Dr Louis Morrill, Reader, Department of Chemistry – organic electrosynthesis, sustainable chemistry, enabling technologies
- Dr Matt Grayson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry – computational chemistry, machine learning, reaction modelling
- Dr Simon Tang, Research Fellow, Department of Life Sciences – biocatalysis, directed evolution, cyclic peptides
- Professor Jody Mason, Professor, Department of Life Sciences – constrained peptides, intracellular screening, protein-protein interactions in disease