Gideon Davies

Gideon Davies

Gideon John Davies (born July 6, 1964 in Great Sutton , Cheshire ) is an English biochemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at the University of York (York Structural Biology Laboratory, YSBL).

Davies studied at the University of Bristol , where he received his PhD in biochemistry in 1990 with a PhD thesis on phosphoglycerate kinase with Herman Watson and Len Hall. As a post-doctoral student he was at the external laboratory of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBO) in Hamburg with Keith S. Wilson and undertook structural studies on proteins with synchrotron radiation and was a researcher at the CNRS in Grenoble. He also conducted research on DNA gyrase in New York with Dale Wigley and Guy Dodson. In 1996 he received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2001 he became a professor at the University of York.

He deals with the biochemistry of carbohydrates , the enzymes involved in their biosynthesis and their modification and breakdown (and their structure), glycobiology and their use as biofuel .

His research on enzymes that cause O-glycosylation has applied to drugs for Alzheimer's disease . He also looks at the carbohydrate metabolism in the human microbiome .

In 2015 he received the Davy Medal , in 2014 the Khorana Prize and in 2010 the Gabor Medal . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2010), the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Academy of Medical Sciences (2014). In 2007 he received a D.Sc. in Bristol. He is a Fellow of the EMBO.

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