Schofield, Christopher J. Ph.D.

 

Title and Affiliation:

Professor, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, United Kingdom.

 

Biosketch:

Christopher Schofield studied for an undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He moved to Oxford for DPhil studies with Jack Baldwin on the synthesis and biosynthesis of antibiotics. He subsequently became a Departmental Demonstrator in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, and in 1990 Lecturer in Chemistry and Fellow of Hertford College. In 1998 he became Professor of Chemistry and he served as Head of Organic Chemistry from 2011 to 2021.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Head of Chemistry at the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research. His research group works at the interface of chemistry, biology and medicine. His work has opened up new fields in antibiotic research, oxygen sensing and gene regulation in organisms ranging from bacteria to plants and animals. His work has identified new opportunities for medicinal intervention that are being pursued by numerous academic and commercial laboratories.

 

Field of Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of brain tumor and cerebrovascular disease