2019 Grimwade Visiting Fellow Oration Department of Public Event Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences Science, Society and Spinouts: From Genomes and Structural Biology to Drug Discovery Professor Sir Thomas Blundell, FRS FMedSci Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge Professor Tom Blundell is Director of Professor Blundell has developed new Research and Professor Emeritus in the approaches to structure-guided and Department of Biochemistry, University of fragment-based drug discovery. In 1999 he Cambridge, where he was previously Sir co-founded Astex Therapeutics, an oncology William Dunn Professor and Head of company that has eight drugs in clinical Department and Chair of School of trials. He has developed structure-guided Event Details Biological Sciences. He is a Fellow of the fragment-based approaches to drug Royal Society, member of the European discovery for difficult targets involving Date: Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), multiprotein systems and protein-protein Wednesday 25 September 2019 fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences interactions. (UK) amongst other prestigious posts. Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Professor Blundell was a member of Professor Blundell has made many Margaret Thatcher’s Advisory Council on Venue: important contributions as a structural Science & Technology, Founding CEO of Bio21 Institute Auditorium biologist in understanding polypeptide Biotechnology and Biological Sciences 30 Flemington Road hormones, growth factors, receptor Research Council, Chairman, Royal Parkville activation, signal transduction, and DNA Commission on Environment, Deputy Chair Enquiries: repair. He has produced many widely used of Institute of Cancer Research and biochem- software packages for protein modelling President of UK Science Council. In 1997, he [email protected] and design and for predicting effects of was knighted for his contributions to mutations and to understand cancer & drug science and society. Bookings: resistance. He has published ~630 research Bookings are essential. papers, including ~40 in Nature and Science, and has an H-factor of 114. Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/ e/professor-thomas-blundell- science-society-and-spinouts- tickets-66973767341 CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00116K .