Dr Mahmoud Akhtar - PhD MRSC CChem
Position:Research and Fiscal Manager & Senior Scientific Officer
Links
Research Group: Chemical Biology
Further Information: Professor Allemann’s research page
Research Interests
- Combining synthetic chemistry and biology approaches to generate novel drugs.
- Synthetic biology to generate novel unnatural terpenoids through protein and metabolic engineering.
- Intracellular Biphotonic Nanoswitches: programmed control of molecular pathways with light.
- Mechanistic studies of enzymatic hydrogen tunnelling.
Teaching
CH0003 - Chemistry of Organic Compounds
CH3103 - Foundations of Organic chemistry
CH3216 - Chemical Biology II: Introduction to Enzyme and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
CHT225 - Biocatalysis II: Industrial Applications of Biocatalysis
BI1215 - Chemistry 2