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8TH AUG 2008
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 Professor Greg Challis, the recipient of the 2007 Wain Medal, will give a public lecture at the University of Kent on Tuesday 13 November.
Titled Mining an Aladdin’s cave of genomic information for new metabolic treasures, Professor Challis’ lecture will take place at 6pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 on the University’s Canterbury campus.
The lecture is free and open to all. There is disabled access to the lecture theatre.
The Wain Medal Award and Lecture, an annual event at the University, commemorates the life and work of Professor Louis Wain, who is widely regarded as one of Britain’s most outstanding agricultural chemists of the 20th century.
The Lecture and the Award, which is made to a young British scientist conducting exceptional research at the interface of biology and chemistry, have been enabled by a generous endowment from Mrs Joan Wain and family.
Greg Challis is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Warwick. His principal research activities focus on so-called secondary metabolites natural compounds, many of which are the mainstay of chemotherapeutic treatments and include antibiotic, anti-cancer and other important drugs.
Professor Challis and his research group are interested in how these metabolites are synthesised by bacteria and other organisms, how they can be modified to make new compounds and what properties they have that can lead to their development as new drugs.
This vitally important field of research and development has recently undergone a dramatic shift of emphasis as a result of the genome sequencing of organisms, particularly bacteria.
Professor Challis has been at the international forefront of interpreting such genome sequences as a means of discovering secondary metabolite novelty.
Professor Mike Geeves, Head of the Department of Biosciences at the University of Kent, said: ‘We are looking forward to Professor Challis’ lecture, the theme of which would have appealed greatly to Professor Wain, whose enquiry into the chemistry of living things and its development for the benefit of humankind was a lifelong passion.’
Professor Challis has received a number of honours and prizes including a Wellcome Trust International Prize.
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