Nicholas Turner#
| Membership Number: | 5724 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://turner-biocatalysis.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8708-0781 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Manchester, UK
- 1998 - 2004 Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1995 - 1998 Reader in Bio-Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1987 - 1995 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Exeter, UK
- 1985 - 1987 Royal Society Junior Research Fellow (Foulerton Gift and Binmore Kenner)
Fields of Scholarship
- Asymmetric synthesis
- Synthetic biology
- Directed evolution of enzymes
- Protein engineering
- Biocatalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2018 ACS Catalysis Lectureship
- 2017 - 2022 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2017 RSC Organic Stereochemistry Award
- 2015 University of Manchester Researcher of the Year Award
- 2011 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry Industrial Organic Award
- 2007 AZ/GSK/Pfizer UK Prize for Process Chemistry Research
- 2004 International Biocat Award
- 1996 Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize
- 1995 Pfizer Academic Award for Organic Chemistry
- 1992 Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Carbohydrate Chemistry
