About HWB-NMR
We offer access to six NMR spectrometers at the Henry Wellcome Building, a national NMR facility based in Birmingham and affiliated with the Department of Cancer & Genomic Sciences within the College of Medicine and Health.
New and proven technologies for structural biology, drug design, and metabolomics are developed and provided at HWB-NMR by its staff and a growing community of NMR users including many postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.
We are working to grow NMR, both in solution and in solid-state, in structural biology, drug design, biomolecular engineering and metabolism. We provide researchers with state-of-the-art NMR technologies, outstanding support and expert knowledge. Both experts and non-expert users are invited to use our facility through our flexible and bespoke user-support models.
Our Mission
We aim to:
- Provide state-of-the-art NMR methods, both in solution and in solid-state, for internationally competitive biomedical research in mechanistic structural biology, biomolecular dynamics, drug development and metabolic profiling
- Develop and make available next generation NMR technologies including pulse programs, experimental set-up and instrumentation
- Support the NMR needs of multiple UK scientific communities, including all scientists interested in understanding molecular and cellular mechanisms, independent of their expertise in NMR
- Link to European and global NMR facilities to improve both our science and our management models, as well as to promote the visibility of UK NMR research.
A team of seven NMR staff within the Department of Cancer & Genomic Sciences and School of Biosciences manage the facility's operations, and provide personal consultation, high-level training, collaborative expertise and hands-on spectrometer access.
Our NMR staff, advisors and user communities
The Henry Wellcome Building for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is supported by a dedicated team of scientific and technical staff, alongside a wider community of researchers and advisors. Together, they provide expertise, leadership and collaboration that enable the facility to deliver internationally competitive NMR research and training.
Have any questions for us?
We welcome enquiries from prospective new users. Our services have been accessed by users from over thirty UK-based universities, a dozen groups from across Europe, and several companies involved in biomedical, biochemical and pharmaceutical research and development.
For general enquiries, please contact Sara Whittaker.