Anthony John Day#
| Membership Number: | 3224 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/people/profile/?personid=499 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Associate Member of Manchester Centre for Biophysics and Catalysis, University of Manchester (UoM), UK
- 2009 - present Faculty Member of NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester, UK
- 2005 - present Member of Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, UoM, UK
- 2005 - present Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, UoM, UK
- 1993-2006 Member of Biochemistry Department/Congregation, University of Oxford (UoO), UK
- 1998-2005 Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Scientific Staff, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Oxford, UK
- 1991-2005 Arthritis Research UK (ARUK), Research Fellow, UoO, UK (Fellowship Renewal 1996)
- 1990-1991 MRC Scientific Staff, MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Oxford, UK
- 1988-1990 PDRF (Sponsored by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, USA), UoO, UK
- 1988 (Jan-June) Schorstein Research Fellow in Medical Science, UoO, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Musculoskeletal disease, e.g. arthritis and osteoporosis
- Reproductive biology, e.g. ovulation
- Inflammatory disease, e.g. age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
- Protein/carbohydrate biochemistry, structural biology and biophysics
- Glycosaminoglycan/hyaluronan-binding proteins and proteoglycans
- Extracellular matrix biology
- Immunology, e.g. innate immunity
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Arthritis Research UK’s New Agents Advisory Committee (2012-2015)
- 2011 Management Committee of Oxford Protein Production Facility, Harwell, UK (2011- )
- 2007 Elected Trustee of International Society for Hyaluronan Sciences (2007-2010)
- 2005 Medical Research Council College of Experts (2005-2009)
- 2004 Medical Research Council Advisory Board (2004-2005)
- 2004 Arthritis Research UK Research Sub-Committee (2004-2008)
- 1999 British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB) Committee (1999-2003)
- 1996 Arthritis Research UK Research Fellowship Renewal
- 1991 Arthritis Research UK Research Fellowship
- 1988 Schorstein Research Fellowship in Medical Science
