Simon Newstead holds the David Phillips Chair of Molecular Biophysics in the Department of Biochemistry, is a member of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery in Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Simon received his MBiochem (Hons.) degree from the University of Bath in 2001 and his PhD in protein crystallography at St Andrews in 2004. Simon then joined the membrane protein laboratory of Professor So Iwata, at Imperial College London, where he worked on structural studies of secondary active transporters and methods development in membrane protein structural biology. In 2009, he was awarded an MRC career development award to establish a research group in Oxford focused on cellular nutrient uptake and drug transport. In 2013 he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and senior subject tutor (Ordinary Student) in Biochemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. In 2015 he was promoted to Professor and in 2019 elected to the Royal Society of Biology. In 2022 Simon was appointed to the David Phillips Chair in Molecular Biophysics and Professorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College. Simon currently leads the Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics research theme in the department of Biochemistry.
Research in the laboratory is funded by Wellcome and UKRI through the MRC and BBSRC.
Awards:
David Phillips Chair of Molecular Biophysics – 2022
Member of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery Oxford – 2020
Wellcome Collaborative Award – 2020
Wellcome Investigator Award – 2020
BCA Early Research Award – 2015
Wellcome Investigator Award – 2014
MRC Career Development Award – 2009
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Google Scholar page can be found here.
ORCID 0000-0001-7432-2270.