Prof Sabine Flitsch - personal details

Sabine holds a Chair in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester in the School of Chemistry.

Her research group is housed in the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB; http://www.mib.ac.uk/)

Sabine graduated from University of Münster in Germany in 1982 with a first class Diploma in Chemistry. She received a Michael Wills scholarship to study for a D.Phil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Sir Jack E. Baldwin.

She then took up a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work with Professor H. Gobind Khorana until 1988 before returning to Oxford to take up a lectureship in Organic Chemistry for 6 years.

After joining the University of Edinburgh in 1995, Sabine was awarded the Zeneca Research Award in 1996 and the Glaxo Wellcome Award for Innovative Chemistry in 1997.

She was also a BBSRC Research Development Fellow from 2001-4 and was recently awarded the Wolfson Merit Award by the Royal Society (2007-2012).

In October 2004 Sabine moved to a Chair in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester in the Department of Chemistry.