Carter Mitchell

Carter Mitchell is a protein chemist and structural biologist with 20 years of direct experience isolating and characterizing difficult proteins from a variety of recombinant and natural sources. He earned a PhD in Structural Biology where he enzymatically characterized and solved the structures of a multidomain proteins involved in the biosynthesis of metabolites. During his first postdoctoral fellowship he developed and led a drug discovery pipeline with a team of scientist that isolated and characterized bioactive small-molecules and peptides from mammalian microbiomes as well as solved the structure of a unique peptide with novel secondary structural elements. At the National Cancer Institute, Carter focused on the isolation of bioactive proteins from marine aqueous extracts, which required creative purification strategies and earned the Director’s Innovation Award. Prior to joining Kemp Proteins, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Director of Structural Biology at a Biotech start-up where he built, developed, and implemented protein expression and isolation laboratory and managed the protein production and purification team.