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Charles Laughton

Professor of Computational Pharmaceutical Science, Faculty of Science

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Biography

My first degree was in Chemistry, and I then stayed on at Oxford to study for my DPhil with George Fleet on the total synthesis of analogues of the antimycoplasmic agent pseudomonic acid. I then moved to the CRC Experimental Cancer Chemotherapy Research Group at Aston University, working with Andy Gescher, John Hickman and Malcolm Stevens on protein kinase C inhibitors as antitumour agents. This awakened an interest in both cancer chemotherapy and computational chemistry. I next moved to the CRC Biomolecular Structure Unit at the Institute of Cancer Research, where with Stephen Neidle I was able to pursue molecular modeling full time, and also developed a particular interest in nucleic acid structure and recognition. In 1995 I took up a lectureship in the School of Pharmacy at Nottingham, was promoted to Reader in 2001, and to Professor in Computational Pharmaceutical Science in 2017.

Teaching

Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Expertise Summary

The development and application of new computational methods for the design and development of drugs and medicines.

Computational methods for the design and prediction of the structures, dynamics, and properties of biomolecules (proteins and nucleic acids).

Research Summary

My research focuses on the understanding of molecular recognition in biological systems, and the application of this to projects in medicinal chemistry (drug design and development) and… read more

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