Focus areas

• Protein Engineering & Functional Biomolecular Systems
• Biophysics, Nanotech & Biosensors
• Antimicrobial & Therapeutic Innovation

This theme encompasses:

• all aspects of synthetic or engineering biology, from innovation to application including the development and functional application of molecular biosensors.
• biophysical aspects of organismal biology across the scale.
• research on antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), form mechanisms to promising therapies.

TBC

Examples of past research theme events

• Translational research workshop - for students to explore how their research can be translated into tackling biomedical questions
• Cross-disciplinary Summer School - focusing on contemporary biochemical and biophysical techniques and approaches (in collaboration with EPSRC PhD students)