Jim Staunton
James "Jim" Staunton (* around 1935 ) is a British chemist ( organic chemistry , biochemistry ).
Staunton attended St. Edward's College in Liverpool from 1946 to 1953 . He studied at the University of Liverpool with William Basil Whalley and was a post-doctoral student at Stanford University with Carl Djerassi . He was a lecturer in Liverpool and later Professor of Chemical Biology at Cambridge University (Fellow of St. John's College).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1998). In 2002 he received the Robert Robinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry and their Tilden and Natural Products Medal.
He deals with organic synthesis, organic reaction mechanisms and tracer techniques in the study of biosynthesis . He also contributed to the development of analytical methods such as electrospray - mass spectrometry of organic molecules and proteins and NMR studies of tracer isotopes. With his fellow professors Peter Leadlay (Cambridge), he examined modular polyketide - synthases .
In addition to his university career, he founded the company Biotica with Peter Leadlay (for antibiotic development in a biosynthetic way, with antibiotics such as rapamycin ).
Web links
- Homepage, Cambridge
- Chemistry Tree
- Announcement of the Roche Lecture 2015 by Staunton at St. Edward's College, Creating new antibiotics, a Frankenstein approach, pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Research areas according to the brief biography in Lew Mander, Hung-Weng Liu, Comprehensive Natural Products II, Volume 1 (Eds. Craig Townsend, Yutaka Ebizuka), Elsevier 2010, p. 452. Darin von Staunton, Alison M. Hill, Type I Modular PKS, pp. 385-452
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Staunton, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Staunton, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist (organic chemistry, biochemistry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1935 |