Our strategy
The aims of Chemistry Biology Interface Community (CBIC) are to:
- Advocate for the importance and value of the chemistry biology interface and its role in the life sciences, medicine, agriculture and the environment with policymakers, the scientific community and society as a whole
- Lead on, advise and support scientific innovation at the chemistry biology interface both nationally and internationally, within and between the academic, public and industrial sectors
- Support interdisciplinary working by strengthening links between the chemical, biological and wider scientific communities
- Support, inspire and equip the next generation of scientists working at the chemistry biology interface
- Promote a culture of inclusion and diversity, and to ensure fair and equal progression for talented chemical scientists working at the chemistry biology interface
CBIC address these aims by a variety of means, which include contribution to policy consultations, and the development and support of events and activities that encourage collaborative working and enable researcher mobility.
Meet the members of the Council who are responsible for ensuring that the Community fulfils its purpose.
Dr Andrew Truman
Elected Member
Andy Truman is a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre (JIC), where his group aims to understand the chemistry and biology of microbial natural products.
Andy obtained an MSci in Chemistry at Imperial College London (2004), which was followed by a PhD in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge (2008), where he remained for a postdoctoral position.
He established his research group at JIC in 2013 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. The group combines chemistry, mass spectrometry, synthetic biology, microbial genetics and bioinformatics to understand the biosynthesis of complex natural products and how they function in nature. His group have also developed tools to aid the discovery of new peptide-derived natural products.
Anna Barnard
Elected member
Anna is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London where her research is focused on developing chemical tools to study and modulate protein-protein interactions in bacteria and cancer biology.
After her undergraduate degree at Durham University, Anna carried out her PhD at the University of York before holding post-doctoral positions at the University of Leeds and then Imperial. In 2019, Anna was awarded a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellowship to stay at Imperial to start her independent research career.
In 2020, the 欧美AV commissioned a review of the Divisions. One of the key recommendations of the Review was that the Divisions be reorganised into subject communities to better support the communities and members they represented, and to allow for better integration and collaboration with interest groups and other Communities.
The Chemistry Biology Interface Division became the Chemistry Biology Interface Community from July 2022.
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