Professor Tom Brown
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Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 2974 | Internal: 22974 | Fax: 02380 592991
Room 30:5037
School of Chemistry
Email: tb2@soton.ac.uk
Tom Brown Short CV
Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ. UK.
e-mail: tb2@soton.ac.uk.
Web site: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/chemistry/research/brownt/brownt.html
Phone: +2380 592974, fax: +2380 592991
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
Member of the American Chemical Society
Date of Birth: 10th November 1952
Nationality: British
Previous appointments
1985-1991 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
1991-1993 Reader in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
1993-1995 Professor of Nucleic acids Chemistry, University of Edinburgh
Recent appointments and awards
1992 MakDougall-Brisbane prize for research, Royal Society of Edinburgh
1992 Royal Society of Chemistry Josef Loschmidt Award
1993 Royal Society of Edinburgh Caledonian Research Fellowship
2004-05 Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship
2005, 2006 Chair of EPSRC Senior and Advanced Chemistry Fellowships Panel
2006-09 Member of BBSRC Biomolecular Sciences committee (BMS)
2007 Royal Society of Chemistry medal for Nucleic Acids Chemistry
Current EPSRC College member
Recent Invited Lectures
Nobel Foundation Workshop “Fundamentals of Biomolecular Function: Nucleic Acids, Proteins and Membranes” in Coimbra, Portugal May 2005
Mutations in the Human Genome. Santorini Greece June 2005
Eurotides Berlin December 2007
Molecular Frontiers Symposium and Forum Biopolis Singapore January 2008
BIOTECH.ORG – Forte dei Marmi (Lucca) Italy May 2009
3rd European Congress on Chemistry for Life Sciences in Frankfurt, September 2009
42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow, August 2009
Enterprise
Research collaborations and consultancies including UK Forensic Science Service, Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), DSTL Porton Down, Brax Genomics, Trillion Genomics, Cytocell Ltd, DxS Genotyping Ltd, Enigma Diagnostics Ltd, Solexa Ltd (Illimina). Co-inventor on several patents.
1992 to 2001 Founder and Managing Director of Oswel Research Products Ltd. Co-founder of ATDBio Ltd (2005) and Primer Design Ltd (2005).
Research Interests
Applications of nucleic acids chemistry to forensic and genetic analysis, biology, nanotechnology, new methods of nucleic acid sequence recognition, mispairing and mutagenesis in DNA.
Publications
> 200 publications and patents
Research Keywords
Oligonucleotide, DNA, Chemical synthesis, Genetic analysis, DNA repair, Structural studies
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