Andrew Wilson's Biography

Andrew Wilson, Reader in Synthetic Chemistry, University of Leeds

Following a PhD at Warwick with Prof David Leigh and postdocs with Prof Andy Hamilton (Yale) and Prof E. (Bert) W. Meijer (Eindhoven), Andy Wilson joined the University of Leeds in 2004 where he has been since. Andy is the co-director of PPI-Net (http://ppi-net.org/) and Deputy Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at The University of Leeds. Andy’s research centres on using synthetic molecules to understand and control molecular recognition and self-assembly. The groups’ major current focus is on the development of inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.