Professor Elizabeth Hounsell

School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

Liz has responsibility for several projects looking at macromolecular interactions involved in growth control, immune surveillance and neuropathology. This leads into cancer studies, autoimmunity, allergy, AIDS and infection. A major aim of this research is to understand the role of protein glycosylation in cell regulation and to learn how to manipulate protein and oligosaccharide structure in rational drug design.

'The Department of Biological Sciences has a critical mass of academic and technical support staff with expertise across the range of the life sciences. Praised in the last UK Research Assessment Exercise for our research in analytical sciences, we also have acknowledged strengths in synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry. These disciplines are integrated with our expertise in biosystematics, molecular systematics, ecology, microbial biotechnology, mycology and physiology in such areas as bioremediation, environmental monitoring, pesticide research, allergy and toxicogenetics. '

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