Dr. Gary Parkinson

Biography

Gary Parkinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry at UCL School of Pharmacy. He graduated with a degree in Geology from the University of London in 1984 and later received an MSc in Crystallography from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1988. He pursued his PhD in Crystallography at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Helen Berman and Prof. Bryan Craven. After obtaining his PhD, he joined Rutgers University as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on DNA-protein/DNA complexes. In 1998, he returned to the UK to work with Prof. S. Neidle and became part of the School of Pharmacy in 2002, where he served as a Senior Research Fellow and assistant director of the Biomolecular Structure Group. He was appointed as a lecturer in 2007 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2013. At UCL, he teaches various aspects of the MSc in Drug Discovery and Development as well as the MPharm degree programme, and he manages a crystallography laboratory. His research interests include nucleic acids, structural biology, biophysical analysis, single-molecule FRET, and molecular modelling.

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