Christopher Southan

B.Sc.Hons, M.Sc., Ph.D., Special Prof.

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Accomplishments

• Record of high achievement in bioinformatics, chemical biology databases, proteomics, genomics, drug target discovery, protein chemistry and HPLC
• Broad background in pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D.
• Team managment, project leadership and supervisory sucesses
• 79 publications (45 in PubMed)
• 22 patents (10 granted)
• 28 sequence database entries
• Invited external presentations
• Wide network of academic and commercial contacts
• Appointed  Special Professor in Proteomics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham

Recent positions

2009 - 2010        Contractor in the Knowledge Engineering project, AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal,

2008 - 2009 ELIXIR Database Survey Coordinator, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

2004 - 2007        Principal Scientist and Team Leader, AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden

2002 - 2004        Proteome Discovery Bioinformatician, Oxford GlycoSciences, Abingdon, UK

2001 - 2002        Head of Computational Biology, Gemini Genomics, Cambridge, UK

1987 - 2000        Senior Investigator, Bioinformatics Target Discovery, SmithKline Beecham, Harlow, UK

A picture from a presentation at “In Silico Analysis of Proteins: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot” Fortaleza, Brazil,  August  2006 [SLIDES] [VIDEO]

Contact: cdsouthan@hotmail.com,   mobile (Sweden) +46 (0)702-530710

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