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Biography

Ali Tavassoli is Professor of Chemical Biology at the School of 浪花直播, University of Southampton. Ali was born in Iran in 1975. He received his BSc from Bristol University (1995), followed by a PhD in Organic 浪花直播 from Reading University (1999). This was followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in bio-organic chemistry at Sussex University, and a five year postdoctoral fellowship in chemical biology at the Pennsylvania State University.

In 2006, Ali was appointed Lecturer in Chemical Biology at the University of Southampton, and promoted to Reader in 2011. Ali was awarded a personal Chair and promoted to Professor of Chemical Biology in 2015.

His research interests are in the field of chemical biology related to nucleic acids, peptides and proteins; and cell biology, particularly cellular hypoxia-response. Ali is also founder and CSO of Curve Therapeutics, and current President of the RSC鈥檚 Chemical Biology Interface Division. Ali has won a number of awards including the 2017 Medimmune Protein and Peptide Science Award and the 2020 Leonidas Zervas Award from the European Peptide Society. 

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, RSC Chemical Biology