Paul S. Freemont
Paul S. Freemont | |
|---|---|
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Synthetic Biology |
| Institutions | University of Aberdeen |
| Doctoral advisor | Linda Fothergill-Gilmore |
| Other academic advisors | John E. Fothergill,Thomas A. Steitz |
| Doctoral students | Michael A. Gorman, Pawel Dokurno, Michael “Nick” Boddy |
| Influenced | Richard Newman |
| Website | https://www.structurebiomed.org/paul-freemont |
Paul Freemont is Professor of Structural and Synthetic Biologyin the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London[1].
Career
Paul Freemont received a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at the University of Aberdeen. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Thomas A. Steitz at at the Dept of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University. In 1988 he joined the ICRF (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln Inn Fields) as a Principal Scientist in 1987. In 2001 he was appointed to a Professorship of Structural Biology in the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College, London.
Books
Synthetic Biology - A Primer (Revised Edition) Paperback – 24 Aug. 2015 Edited by Geoff Baldwin,Travis Bayer, Robert Dickinson, Tom Ellis, Paul S Freemont, Richard I Kitney, Karen Polizzi, Guy-Bart Stan.
Awards
Paul Freemont is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
EMBO Member
Companies
Co-founder of the spin out companies Equinox Pharma and LabGenius and he also sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Netscientific and has held consultancies with a number of other companies and organizations and has also been active in a number of public engagement activities including the RCUK Public Dialogue on Synthetic Biology (2010) and the Royal Academy of Engineering public engagement on synthetic biology (2008).
Other activities and appointments
Professor Paul Freemont is Head of the section of Structural and Synthetic Biology in the Department of Infectious Disease. co-director of the National UK Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Synthetic Biology (SynbiCITE; www.synbicite.com ; since Oct 2013) at Imperial College London. Together with Prof. Richard Kitney he founded the discipline of Synthetic Biology at Imperial College.
He co-supervises the very successful iGEM team at Imperial College.
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External links
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