Cancer research themes

Cancer Therapeutics

Crystal structure of Adhiron34 (magenta), variable loops shown in cyan docked to the NMR structure of p300 (green) (courtesy of Drs. Tomlinson and Edwards)

Image of: Crystal structure of Adhiron34 (magenta), variable loops shown in cyan docked to the NMR structure of p300 (green) (courtesy of Drs Tomlinson and Edwards)

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Name

Area of expertise

Professor Richard Bayliss
Professor in Molecular Medicine

Structural approaches to the design and optimisation of chemical inhibitors 

Professor Eric Blair
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Utilising viruses such as human adenoviruses as therapeutic agents in human cancer

Professor Alex Breeze
Chair in Biomolecular NMR

Fragment-based discovery of allosteric Ras pathway inhibitors that target Sos1

Dr Thomas Edwards
Associate Professor

Design and synthesis novel inhibitors of helix mediated PPIs important in apoptosis and cancer

Dr Darren Tomlinson
Associate Professor

Using biopharmaceuticals to modulate tumour formation and metastases 

Dr Stephanie Wright
Senior Lecturer

Cancer biology; targeted cancer therapies; eukaryotic gene regulation; protein ubiquitination; structural biology