Chemistry of Life Core Group member, LINXS Fellow

John Schwabe, Professor of Structural Biology at the Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, UK.

Prof Schwabe is a structural biologist who has pioneered research into understanding the molecular mechanisms through which nuclear hormone receptors regulate gene expression and more recently the structure/function of important histone deacetylase complexes that regulate the human genome. He studied Biochemistry at University College, Oxford and moved to Cambridge for his PhD with Daniela Rhodes at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He pursued postdoctoral studies with Ron Evans at the Salk Institute in La Jolla before returning to the MRC-LMB as a group leader. In 2006 he moved to the University of Leicester as Professor of Structural Biology.