Sheena Radford#
Membership Number: | 5454 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/staffpage.php?StaffID=SER |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-3079-8039 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Astbury Professor of Biophysics, University of Leeds
- 2012 Director, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 2009 - 2011 Deputy Director, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 2000 Professor of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 1998 - 2000 Reader in Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 1995 - 1998 Lecturer, School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 1991 - 1995 Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
- 1990 - 1995 EPA-Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford
- 1988 - 1991 Post-doctoral research, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford with Professor C.M. Dobson, FRS
- 1988 Post-doctoral research, Dyson Perrins Lab, University of Oxford with Professor G. Lowe, FRS
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanism(s) of protein folding and misfolding
- Amyloid assembly mechanisms
- Membrane protein folding mechanisms
- Role of chaperones & BAM complex in membrane biogenesis
- Stabilising proteins of therapeutic/ interest against aggregation
- Method development and advanced biophysical techniques (native mass spectrometry, NMR, and single molecule methods)
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Honorary Fellow, St John’s College, Cambridge
- 2017 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for “Leadership in protein biophysics”
- 2015 The Rita and John Cornforth Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, jointly with Professor Alison Ashcroft, Leeds
- 2014 Honorary membership of the British Biophysical Society
- 2014 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2013 The Protein Society – Carl Branden award
- 2013 ERC Advanced grant 322408, Euro 2.49M, 1.5.2013 – 30.4.2019, New insights from novel approaches (AMYTOX)
- 2010 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2009 Hites Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, jointly with Professor Alison Ashcroft, Leeds
- 2007 Fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- 2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Astra-Zeneca prize: Proteins and Peptides
- 2003 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2001 - 2006 BBSRC Professorial Fellow
- 1996 The Biochemical Society - Colworth Medal
- 1984 The University Science Faculty prize (Top undergraduate in Faculty in Year 3) - University of Birmingham
- 1983 Departmental prize (Top undergraduate in Biochemistry in Year 2) – University of Birmingham
- 1982 Departmental prize (Top undergraduate in Biochemistry in Year 1) – University of Birmingham