The Chemical Synthesis of Proteins: Beyond the Genome

By Dr Graham Cotton, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at Albachem Ltd

Dr Graham Cotton received his BSc in Chemistry from Durham University and gained his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in the field of synthetic peptide vaccines and therapeutics. Having continued these studies as a Postdoctoral Worker, he moved to Rockefeller University, New York in 1996, where he spent over four years as a Postdoctoral Fellow developing novel protein engineering technologies and their application for elucidating the molecular events regulating cell signalling processes. He then joined Amersham Biosciences to further develop this research area before moving to Albachem Ltd in 2002. As Senior Research Scientist, he is applying his multi-disciplinary experience to focus on new chemical and biological approaches to protein therapeutics.