Why study Biochemistry at Kent?Focus on your future.Accredited courses.Biochemistry at KentWorld-class facilitiesGround-breaking research.
You'll gain an insight into key biological and chemical disciplines, including biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, microbiology and physiology. Your
An Active School
Every week, Biosciences runs school seminars where external guest speakers or staff, talk about recent research.
In addition, the department runs FIREBio (Forum for Innovation, Research and Enterprise in Biosciences), which is a weekly informal meeting for staff, postdocs and postgraduates involving short presentations and discussions.
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Dynamic Publishing Culture
Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books.
Among others, they have recently contributed to: Nature Chemical Biology; Journal of Biological Chemistry; Cell; Molecular Cell; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA; PLOS One; and Journal of Cell Science.
Postgraduate Resources
The School is well equipped, with excellent general research laboratories, together with a range of specialised research resources including facilities for growing micro-organisms of all kinds, extensive laboratories for animal cell culture and monoclonal antibody production and an imaging suite providing high-resolution laser confocal and electron.
Support
All research students are supervised closely and are regularly monitored online using the University progression and monitoring system.
All postgraduate students have access to electronic and other resources providing information regarding technical issues relevant to their degrees, as well as subject-specific and transferable skills training.
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Worldwide Partnerships
Staff in the School of Biosciences not only collaborate extensively with other universities in the UK (Cambridge, Cardiff, King’s College London, University College London, Newcastle, Oxford, Sussex, York, Manchester, Durham and Sheffield), but also have a wide-ranging network across the world with institutes including: the Boston Biomedical Resear.
American scientist
Kent L.
Thornburg is an American scientist, researcher and professor.
He lives in Portland, Oregon and works at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), in the School of Medicine.
He is the director for both the OHSU Center for Developmental Health and the Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness
American chemist
Stephen B.
H.
Kent is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago.
While professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s he pioneered modern ligation methods for the total chemical synthesis of proteins.
He was the inventor of native chemical ligation together with his student Philip Dawson.
His laboratory experimentally demonstrated the principle that chemical synthesis of a protein's polypeptide chain using mirror-image amino acids after folding results in a mirror-image protein molecule which, if an enzyme, will catalyze a chemical reaction with mirror-image stereospecificity.
At the University of Chicago Kent and his junior colleagues pioneered the elucidation of protein structures by quasi-racemic & racemic crystallography.
American scientist
Kent L.
Thornburg is an American scientist, researcher and professor.
He lives in Portland, Oregon and works at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), in the School of Medicine.
He is the director for both the OHSU Center for Developmental Health and the Moore Institute for Nutrition & Wellness
American chemist
Stephen B.
H.
Kent is a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago.
While professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s he pioneered modern ligation methods for the total chemical synthesis of proteins.
He was the inventor of native chemical ligation together with his student Philip Dawson.
His laboratory experimentally demonstrated the principle that chemical synthesis of a protein's polypeptide chain using mirror-image amino acids after folding results in a mirror-image protein molecule which, if an enzyme, will catalyze a chemical reaction with mirror-image stereospecificity.
At the University of Chicago Kent and his junior colleagues pioneered the elucidation of protein structures by quasi-racemic & racemic crystallography.
