Christopher Southan

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

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Accomplishments

• Record of high achievement in bioinformatics, chemical biology, proteomics, genomics, drug target discovery, protein chemistry and HPLC
• Broad background in pharmaceutical and biotechnology R&D.
• Team managment, project leadership and supervisory sucesses
• Over 70 publications including 40 peer-reviewed papers
• Over 20 patents (10 granted)
• Over 25 sequence database entries
• Invited external presentations
• Wide network of academic and commercial contacts
• Appointed  Special Professor in Proteomics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
• Degrees from University of Dundee, UK, University of  Reading UK and Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich, Germany

Current position

2008 ELIXIR Database Survey Coordinator, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Recent positions

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

2002 - 2004        Proteome Discovery Bioinformatician, Oxford GlycoSciences, UK

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

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