David Roper 11th Annual Conference of the International Chemical Biology Society 2022

David Roper

David Roper has a background in microbial biochemistry and was awarded an MRC Career Development Award fellowship at the University of York prior to taking an academic position at the University of Warwick, where he has now Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Research. The Roper group uses interdisciplinary approaches from basic microbiology to molecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography, relating enzyme and protein mechanism to structure and function at a cellular level. His research encompasses both fundamental and translation approaches including assay development and drug discovery approaches. In addition, his research group uses a number of approaches to reengineer pathway intermediates as chemical probes, substrates and inhibitors to allows novel insight to the biology underpinning these pathways which may lead to biotechnological exploration and exploitation. This includes the design and synthesis of chemical mimetic small molecule probes for mechanistic and translational studies.