David R. Spring D.Phil

David is currently a Professor at the University of Cambridge in the Chemistry Department. He worked with Sir Jack E. Baldwin (University of Oxford) and Stuart L. Schreiber (Harvard University), before he joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2001. David’s research spans the disciplines of chemistry and biology through the synthesis of small molecules, which are applied to problems in the life sciences. In particular, he has focused on diversity-oriented synthesis, new synthetic methodologies, and chemical biology in order to discover new, biologically-functional small molecules. He has published six book chapters and co-authored more than 180 journal articles. His group’s laboratory has been awarded a number of research prizes including the Royal Society of Chemistry’s “Norman Heatley Award” and “Corday-Morgan Award”, the Spanish Chemical Societies’ “Felix Serratosa Award”, the MedImmune Protein and Peptide Science Award, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has collaborated with many international companies in the chemical industries.