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I came to Keele in January 2008, after a varied academic background. I carried out my UG and PhD degrees in Chemistry at Oxford, and then took up a lectureship at York in 1983 (although I had originally intended to be a schoolteacher in 'Chemistry and Outdoor Pursuits'). I took up the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) in 1993, and then moved to Manchester in 2001 as Professor of Organic Chemistry, and then as the Dean for Teaching & Learning in Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (overseeing 8000 students). I've run a medium-sized research group (6-10 people) in medicinal/synthetic chemistry, but I've also been very involved in developing new teaching methods in universities (awarded National Teaching Fellowship in 2005), and in outreach activities to schools and the general public.
My research has focused on four main themes:
1) Work on protein mechanisms, most recently on peptide transporters.
2) The synthesis of alkaloids (toxic natural products, that often have valuable pharmaceutical properties if used/developed in the right way), especially:
- indole akaloids, including ones used to treat heart conditions;
- piperidine alkaloids, particularly using Diels-Alder chemistry.
3) Studies on the synthesis and properties of ususual macrocycles.
My research has been recognized by a Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign career development award (1986-91), the Zeneca Research Award for Organic Chemistry in 1994, and election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1999).
Two current projects are especially exciting; we're close to completing (we hope!) the first really efficient synthesis of an indole alkaloid called ajmaline, which is used to treat patients with irregular heartbeat, and has 9 adjacent chiral centres in its amazing 3D structure. Secondly, we have been studying how to help the uptake of pharmaceutically important compounds that aren't orally absorbed; we now have a way of attaching such molecules to a special carrier, allowing them to be 'smuggled' into the bloodstream in tablet form.
More information is available on my research group's website.
Selected Publications
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2010. Bioavailability through PepT1: the role of computer modelling in intelligent drug design. Curr Comput Aided Drug Des, vol. 6(1), 68-78. link>
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Journal Articles
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2010. Bioavailability through PepT1: the role of computer modelling in intelligent drug design. Curr Comput Aided Drug Des, vol. 6(1), 68-78. link>
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2008. Debenzylation using catalytic hydrogenolysis in trifluoroethanol, and the total synthesis of (-)-raumacline. TETRAHEDRON LETTERS, vol. 49, {2150-2153}. doi>
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2007. Unusual rearrangements and cyclizations involving polycyclic indolic systems. ARKIVOC, 161-171. link>
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2000. Modified dipeptides inhibit substrate uptake into PepT1-expressing Xenopus oocytes. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 528P, 99P-100P. link>
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2000. Identification of a candidate peptide transporter in the basolateral membrane of rat intestinal mucosa. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 527, 35P. link>
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2000. How to make drugs orally active: A substrate template for peptide transporter PepT1. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, vol. 39(3), 506-+. link>
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1998. Structural requirements for non-peptide substrate binding to the epithelial proton-coupled oligopeptide transporter. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 511P, 26P-27P. link>
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1996. A model for the kinetics of neutral and anionic dipeptide-proton cotransport by the apical membrane of rat kidney cortex. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 494(3), 795-808. link>
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1996. Membrane potential and pH dependence of neutral and charged dipeptide transport across rat renal cortex basolateral membrane vesicles. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 493P, P62-P63. link>
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1996. Stimulatory effect of glutamine on dipeptide transport by the rat small intestine, in vitro and in situ. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 493P, P104-P105. link>
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1995. EFFECTS ON DIPEPTIDE TRANSPORT OF REDUCING THE PH IN THE LUMEN OF RAT SMALL-INTESTINE, IN-VITRO. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 489P, P105. link>
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1995. A COMPARISON OF THE UPTAKE KINETICS OF A NEUTRAL AND ANIONIC DIPEPTIDE INTO RAT RENAL-CORTEX BRUSH-BORBER MEMBRANE-VESICLES - EFFECT OF MEMBRANE-POTENTIAL AND PROTON GRADIENT. JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON, vol. 487P, P26-P27. link>
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1995. Dipeptide transport and hydrolysis in isolated loops of rat small intestine: effects of stereospecificity. J Physiol, vol. 484 ( Pt 1), 173-182. link>
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1994. THE ART OF LECTURING. CHEMISTRY & INDUSTRY, 190. link>
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1989. A COMPARISON OF LAUE AND MONOCHROMATIC X-RAY ANALYSES OF A SMALL-MOLECULE CRYSTAL. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, vol. 45, 482-488. link>
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1987. DIRECT PROOF OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF A SPIRO INTERMEDIATE IN THE PICTET-SPENGLER REACTION. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S, 202-203. link>
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1987. THE USE OF C-13 NMR IN THE DETERMINATION OF STEREOCHEMISTRY OF 1,2,3-TRISUBSTITUTED TETRAHYDRO-BETA-CARBOLINES. HETEROCYCLES, vol. 26(2), 389-399. link>
Chapters
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2005. Amides. In Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II. Katritzky AR and Taylor RJK (Eds.). (vol. 5). Elsevier.
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2003. A communication course for chemists. In A Handbook for Research & Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice. Fry H, Ketteridge S, Marshall S (Eds.). (2nd ed.). Kogan Page.
Other
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2008. Improving drug oral bioavailability by targeting PepT1. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (vol. 236). link>

