Benjamin Davis#
| Membership Number: | 4448 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dplb0149 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 – present Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2001 – present Fellow and Tutor, Pembroke College, Oxford
- 2001 – 2005 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 1998 – 2001 Demonstrator/Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Durham
- 1996 – 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemical Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- Chemical Medicine
- Carbohydrates
- Proteins
Honours and Awards
- Awards:
- 1999 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Meldola Medal
- 2000 Mitzutani Foundation for Glycoscience Award
- 2000 AstraZeneca Strategic Research Award
- 2001 RSC Carbohydrate Chemistry Award
- 2002 Leverhulme Trust Phillip Leverhulme Prize for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2003 TR35 [MIT’s “young people (< 35) whose contributions to emerging technologies will profoundly influence our world”]
- 2005 Royal Society Mullard Award
- 2005 RSC Corday-Morgan Medal
- 2006 International Association for Protein Structure Analysis Young Investigator Award
- 2008 American Chemical Society (ACS) Isbell Award
- 2008 University of Kent Wain Medal for Chemical Biology
- 2009 Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity in Carbohydrate Chemistry
- 2009 RSC Heatley Medal
- 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2010 BBSRC Innovator of the Year Finalist
- 2010 Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Lectureship Award
- 2010 Sorbonne (UPMC-ParisVI) Invited Professorship
- 2012 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
- 2012 RSC Bioorganic Chemistry Award
- 2015 Elected to the Royal Society
- 2016 International Carbohydrate Society Whistler Award
- 2017 ACS Breslow Award
- 2017 Prix Paul Ehrlich of the Société de Chimie Thérapeutique (SCT)
- Named Lectureships:
- 2006 University of Santiago de Compostela Doctorate Lectureship
- 2008 University of Sydney Cornforth Lectureship
- 2009 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship Award
- 2009 University of Milan Carico Lectureship
- 2009 University of Toronto Jones Lectureship
- 2011 University of St Andrews Hirst Lectureship
- 2011 University of Alberta Boehringer-Ingelheim Lectureship
- 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lectureship
- 2012 The Technion Ginsburg Lectureship
- 2013 University of Sydney Liversidge Lectureship
- 2013 Griffith University Gallagher Lectureship
- 2014 Northwestern University Bender Lectureship
- 2015 Sloan-Kettering Institute Gin Lectureship
- 2015 Stanford University Johnson Symposium
- 2017 CSIC-ICIQ Serratosa Lectureship
- 2017 Ferrier Lectureship
