Carol Austin's Biography

Carol Austin, Group Leader, Selcia Limited

Carol originally studied Biochemistry at the University Bath (UK), then finished her studies in London, completing a Welcome funded PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and a Post-doc at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. She then joined the James Black Foundation to set up and head the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory working on GPCRs. After 7 years, she went to Selcia (Essex, UK) to set up the Biology Department, thus enabling them to offer integrated drug discovery services. Carol has over 20 years’ experience in cell biology, she is currently heading the Biology Group at Selcia and coordinating their fragment screening platform.