Barry V. L. Potter#
| Membership Number: | 2610 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://pharm.ox.ac.uk/team/barry-v-l-potter http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-people/barry-potter |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Emeritus Professor of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2016 Fellow, University College, Oxford
- 2015 Professor of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2015 - 2024 Visiting Professor, University of Bath
- 2006 - 2015 Associate Member, Dept of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- 2006 - 2014 Visiting Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 1995 - 2015 Professor of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, University of Bath
- 1990 - 1995 Lister Institute Research Professor of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry, University of Bath
- 1987 - 1990 Lister Institute Research Fellow, Leicester University
- 1984 - 1990 Lecturer in Biological Chemistry, Leicester University
- 1983 - 1984 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Göttingen, FRG
- 1981 - 1984 Royal Society European Exchange Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen, FRG
- 1980 - 1981 Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1979 - 1981 SRC Postdoctoral Research Assistantship, The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford
- 1977 - 1979 SRC Research Studentship, The Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanistic enzymology
- Anticancer drug discovery and translational and molecular medicine
- Synthesis
- Chemical biology
- Enzyme mechanisms
- Medicinal and biological chemistry
- Steroid chemistry
- Carbohydrates and cyclitols
- Biophosphates
- Nucleosides and nucleotides
- Signal transduction chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1973 - 1977 Open Exhibitioner, Oxford University
- 1978 - 1980 Graduate Scholarship, Wolfson College, Oxford
- 1980 - 1981 Junior Research Fellowship, Oxford
- 1990 - 1995 Lister Institute Research Professorship, Bath
- 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1993 Walsh Memorial Lecturer, Dundee University
- 1995 Membership of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
- 2000 Prestige Lectureship, Bradford University
- 2006 - 2015 Visiting Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Oxford
- 2007/8 Royal Society of Chemistry George and Christine Sosnovsky Award & Medal in Cancer Therapy
- 2007/8 Royal Society of Chemistry George and Christine Sosnovsky Endowed Lecturer
- 2007 Royal Society of Chemistry UCB-Celltech Industrially Sponsored Award & Medal for Chemical Biology
- 2008 Fellow of the Institute of Directors
- 2008 Fellow of the Society of Biology
- 2008 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (by Trustee invitation)
- 2009 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry Biological & Medicinal Chemistry Section, Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize & Medal
- 2009 GlaxoSmithKline International Achievement Award
- 2010 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize & Medal
- 2010 - 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize Endowed Lecturer
- 2012 - European Life Science Awards - "Investigator of the Year"
- 2015/16 - Royal Society of Chemistry, Biological & Medicinal Chemistry Section, Endowed Lectureship
- 2018 Tu Youyou Award for Natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry
- 2022 DSc honoris causa University of Bath
