Dek Woolfson | |
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Born | Derek N. Woolfson 7 July 1965 |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of Oxford, UK University of Cambridge, UK |
Known for | Research on coiled-coil proteins, de novo protein design, peptide assembly, and synthetic biology |
Awards | Medimmune Protein and Peptide Science Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2014. Interdisciplinary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016. Humboldt Research Award, also known as the Humboldt Prize, 2020. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemical biology
Protein design Synthetic biology |
Institutions | University of Bristol |
Doctoral advisor | Dudley Williams FRS |
Derek Dek Woolfson (born 7 July 1965) is a British chemist and biochemist. He is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry.[1][2] and director of the Bristol BioDesign Institute[3] at the University of Bristol, and founder of synthetic biology spin-out company Rosa Biotech.[4]