Paul Teesdale-Spittle

Having completed a BSc(Hons) in Chemistry at Nottingham University in the UK, I found myself completing a PhD in peptide chemistry. From there, I took up a position teaching organic chemistry, but found myself progressively more interested in the chemical principles underpinning biology. Chemistry for the sake of chemistry became chemistry for the sake of biology. Then it became how chemistry can inform biology. Now I work at the interface of biology and chemistry, looking at how drug-like molecules interact with biological systems (using some of the tools of cellular and systems biology) and developing new versions of bioactive compounds (using the tools of organic chemistry).