Sheena Radford#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2014 Astbury Professor of Biophysics, University of Leeds
• 2012 Director, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
• 2009 - 2011 Deputy Director, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
• 2000 Professor of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
• 1998 - 2000 Reader in Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
• 1995 - 1998 Lecturer, School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
• 1991 - 1995 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
• 1990 - 1995 EPA-Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford
• 1988 - 1991 Post-doctoral research, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford with Professor C.M. Dobson, FRS
• 1988 Post-doctoral research, Dyson Perrins Lab, University of Oxford with Professor G. Lowe, FRS

• Mechanism(s) of protein folding and misfolding
• Amyloid assembly mechanisms
• Membrane protein folding mechanisms
• Role of chaperones & BAM complex in membrane biogenesis
• Stabilising proteins of therapeutic/ interest against aggregation
• Method development and advanced biophysical techniques (native mass spectrometry, NMR, and single molecule methods)

• 2019 Honorary Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge
• 2017 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for “Leadership in protein biophysics”
• 2015 The Rita and John Cornforth Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, jointly with Professor Alison Ashcroft, Leeds
• 2014 Honorary membership of the British Biophysical Society
• 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
• 2013 The Protein Society – Carl Branden award
• 2013 ERC Advanced grant 322408, Euro 2.49M, 1.5.2013 – 30.4.2019, New insights from novel approaches (AMYTOX)
• 2010 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• 2009 Hites Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, jointly with Professor Alison Ashcroft, Leeds
• 2007 Fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
• 2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Astra-Zeneca prize: Proteins and Peptides
• 2003 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 2001 - 2006 BBSRC Professorial Fellow
• 1996 The Biochemical Society - Colworth Medal
• 1984 The University Science Faculty prize (Top undergraduate in Faculty in Year 3) - University of Birmingham
• 1983 Departmental prize (Top undergraduate in Biochemistry in Year 2) – University of Birmingham
• 1982 Departmental prize (Top undergraduate in Biochemistry in Year 1) – University of Birmingham

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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