Birmingham Drug Discovery Hub Team

Dr Holly Adcock is a Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry with a strong background in synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry. Her research is based around utilisation and development of a wide range of synthetic chemistry to enable and accelerate multidisciplinary drug discovery programs across campus as well as the development and maintenance of the Haworth Chemically-Enabled Compound ...

Dr Liam Cox is a Reader in Biological Organic Chemistry at The University of Birmingham and heads up the School’s Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Research Theme. 

Since joining Birmingham in 1999, he has supervised over 20 PhD students, published extensively in the scientific literature and secured funding from the EPSRC and MRC, EU, Wellcome Trust, The Leverhulme Trustand ...

Dr Alan Jones is an Associate Professor in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy in the Institute of Clinical Sciences. His research interests focus on the application of synthetic and medicinal chemistry to solve challenges at the intersection of biology and drug discovery for patient benefit. Key topics include:

• The development of advanced, novel drug molecules for ...

Ruth began her academic career in the laboratory of T Michael Dexter at the CRC Patterson institute where her PhD studies contributed to defining the stem cell niche (Roberts et al., (1988) Nature 332: 376-378. 306).  She then conducted postdoctoral research at Cancer Research UK under Professors Karol Sikora and Bill Gullick.  In 1990, Ruth joined ICI CTL as a junior lab head ...

Dr Kim Roper is a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry within the School of Pharmacy in the Institute of Clinical Sciences. She carries out research in organic chemistry focussing on the synthesis of small molecules and is involved in the development and delivery of the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) undergraduate degree programme.

Kim has very strong background in organic synthesis, having been trained ...