Tetrahedron Symposium Speaker Biography

Mark Bradley

Professor Mark Bradley was awarded a first class degree in chemistry in 1986 (University of Oxford) and his D.Phil., awarded in 1989, was performed under the supervision of Sir Professor Baldwin. This was followed by a period of post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School with Professor Walsh in the area of molecular biology. He was at the University of Southampton from 1992-2004 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow (1992-1999), during which time he was awarded a personal chair in Combinatorial Chemistry (1997). In 2005 he took up his current position as Professor of High-Throughput Chemical Biology in Edinburgh. He is the winner of numerous awards including the 2006/7 Novartis lectureship and his group has published over 180 research articles. His research interests are focused on the application of the tools and techniques of chemistry to answer and solve biological problems and address needs, typically with a high-throughput twist. Two themes dominate at this time: the development of non-DNA based microarray platforms for cell and enzymatic based assays and the development of chemistries that enable highly efficient cellular delivery of proteins, nucleic acids, sensors and small molecules.