Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Director: Prof. Brian Sutton
The Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy was established in 2010 with a Capital Award from the Wellcome Trust. The Centre brings together new instrumentation in NMR (specifically a 700 MHz spectrometer) and a number of other biophysical techniques to provide a set of facilities to promote the study of biological macromolecules both in basic and medical science, and for projects that translate these advances into clinical understanding and benefit. It provides expertise and state-of-the-art biophysical facilities to King's research groups in the following:
The Centre complements other biophysical techniques located in the Randall Division (such as X-ray crystallography and microscopy) and in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Franklin-Wilkins Building), thus continuing the College’s distinguished tradition in biophysics.
The Centre will also play a role in teaching, by providing essential techniques that can be accessed in final year undergraduate projects and in Masters level programmes. It already plays a key role in the MRes programme in Molecular Biophysics and will be used to support the new MSci/BSc Chemistry with Biomedicine programme.
The Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy was formally inaugurated by Professor Sir Richard Trainor KBE, Principal of King's College London, on Friday 9 September 2011. For further details of the Inaugural Symposium, see here.
Contact:
Prof. Brian Sutton