Prof. Nigel S. Scrutton Director, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9DP Email: [email protected] Tel: +44(0)161 306 5152 4 November 2014 Letter of support: Anthony Green As director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) I am pleased to offer my strongest support for the fellowship application of Anthony Green. The application has been peer-reviewed by the institute’s Research Strategy Group, and from the overwhelmingly positive response we are satisfied that Dr. Green is an excellent candidate for a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship. The University of Manchester has a global reputation for pioneering research and the sheer scale, diversity and quality of its research activity provides a superb environment for fellows to thrive. As a fellow within our institute, Anthony will have full access to our excellent research facilities which are offered in a unique infra-structure research environment designed to remove the barriers between disciplines and promote innovative science. Anthony will also be supported with guidance and mentoring throughout his fellowship, treated as a full academic member of staff and will benefit from our fellowship extension scheme to provide a position within the faculty/institute at the end of his fellowship. This extension scheme reflects our confidence in the fellows that we recruit and demonstrates our commitment to the career progression of these individuals. Anthony’s research, which merges the disciplines of biocatalysis and organocatalysis to create enzymes with completely new functionality, addresses one of the key strategic priorities of the industrial biotechnology/synthetic biology communities as they seek to develop sustainable approaches to the production of high-value chemicals. These research interests align closely with the MIB’s Grand Challenges which centre on emerging areas of excellence in the wider biotechnology field including industrial biotechnology, medical biotechnology and therapeutics, and biofuels and energy. As such, his research fits very well with the strategic aims of the institute and will set up many opportunities for Anthony to interact and collaborate within the MIB. Anthony’s fellowship will also complement research across the university campus in general, placing him in an excellent position to develop new theoretical and experimental research collaborations. Combined with his established connections with academic and industrial researchers from UK and international institutes, these collaborations will present new opportunities for the MIB engage in novel cross-disciplinary research. Prof. Nigel Scrutton (Director Manchester Institute of Biotechnology) Letter of Support BBSRC Reference: BB/M027023/1 Page 1 of 1 Letter of support, Prof. N. Scrutton, MIB, UoM.