Adam Perriman's Biography

Adam Perriman, Associate Professor of Biodesign, Reader in Biomaterials, University of Bristol

Adam Perriman is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Bristol and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Fellow. He is internationally distinguished for his pioneering research on the construction and study of novel synthetic biomolecular systems. His interests are acutely interdisciplinary, and span the fields of chemistry, synthetic biology and tissue engineering. His significant advances in these areas have resulted in numerous invited presentations at conferences and colloquia and has generated extensive media coverage and featured in the popular science magazines New Scientist, Pop Sci and The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemistry World. In 2010 and 2016 he was interviewed on BBC4, which was broadcast nationally. He has published much of his research in high-impact scientific journals, including Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials. In 2015, he was named a Wellcome Trust Frontiers Innovator, and in 2016, he received the British Biophysical Society Young Investigator's Award and Medal. In December of 2017, he foundered the new cell therapy company, CytoSeek.