People
Based in the School of Life Sciences, our drug discovery team us made up of medicinal chemists, cell and molecular biologists, protein structural biologists, electrophysiologists and assay development scientists.
Meet the team
SDDC Director
Head of Medicinal Chemistry
Structural Biology Advisor
Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery
Trudy Myers
Research Projects Manager
Scientific Advisory Board
Senior Vice President, Discovery Chemistry, REVOLUTION Medicines
Honorary Professor of Drug Discovery (Biochemistry)
Senior Director Drug Discovery Project Management at Eurofins Discovery
Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, University of Kent
Visiting scientists and associates
Visiting Honorary Professor
Visiting Scientist
Emeritus Professor (Biochemistry)
Dr Daniel Guest
Visiting Scientist
Dr Sarah Lilley
Visiting Scientist
Medicinal chemistry
Meet our medicinal chemistry team.
Chemistry co-leads
Research Fellow (Biochemistry)
Research Fellow (Chemistry)
Medicinal chemists
Research Fellow in Medicinal Chemistry
Research Fellow in Medicinal Chemistry
Royal Society K C Wong International Fellow
Biology
Meet the Biology team.
Visiting Scientist
Research Fellow in Cell Biology
Research Fellow in Biochemistry
Research Fellow in Protein and Structural Biology
Research Fellow in Protein and Structural Biology
Research Fellow in Assay Development & Screening
Research Assistant in Drug Discovery
PhD Students
Ben Spivey
Ben joins us from the University of Oxford where he studied for an integrated master’s degree in chemistry (MChem). For his PhD he will be investigating targeted hop components as new antimicrobials in Prof John Spencer's group.
James Lai-Morrice
James studied at Sussex and prior to starting his PhD at the Centre he had been working as a Research Associate in Chemistry. He will be supervsied by Prof John Spencer and Dr Barny Greenland.
Maria Staikopoulou
Maria undertook her degree and Masters at Sussex and she also completed her MSci project in SDDC before starting as a PhD student. Maria will be supervised by Dr Haitham Hassan.