John Spencer's Biography

John Spencer, Professor, University of Sussex

John Spencer is a graduate of Sussex University, with a PhD from the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg and a postdoctoral fellowship at the ETH, Zurich. He spent 10 years in the Pharmaceutical Sector as a medicinal chemist, notably 5 years at the James Black Foundation, heading parallel synthesis, before embarking on an academic career (Reader, Greenwich, 2006-2012) and is now back at Sussex as a Reader in chemistry. His research interests are centred on the synthesis of chemical probes in medicinal chemistry. He has authored over 100 publications, patents and book chapters and has successfully supervised 6 PhD students to completion. He is an editorial board member of Future Medicinal Chemistry, Cogent Chemistry and Scientific Reports (Nature group) and has current funded projects on p53 mutant stabilisation (Worldwide Cancer Research), Niemann Pick C (Niemann Pick Research Foundation) and an EPSRC AstraZeneca-funded iCASE award.