GIDEON DAVIES (University of York) Structural enzymology and chemistry

https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/d-g/gdavies/

Gideon Davies is the Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor of Chemical and at the University of York. He received his PhD from the in 1990, and went on to postdoctoral research at EMBL Hamburg with a couple of short spells at CNRS Grenoble. He was made a Professor of the University of York in 2001. He has won many awards, most recently the 2016 iChemE Global Energy award & the 2015 of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 2010. He is best known for his structural studies on carbohydrate-active domains, notably the reaction mechanisms and diverse substrate distortions that take place during catalysis. In more detail (from above web page)

Gideon Davies received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1990, and went on to postdoctoral research at EMBL Hamburg and CNRS Grenoble. In 1996 he received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work on Carbohydrate-Active . He was made a Professor of the University of York in 2001. He has won many awards including the 2016 iChemE Global Energy award, the 2015 Davy Medal of the Royal Society, the 2014 Khorana Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the 2010 Gabor Medal of the Royal Society. Gideon was elected a a Fellow of The Royal Society in 2010, and as a member of the European Organization the same year. He was also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. Gideon Davies was made a Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor in 2016.