James Naismith#
| Membership Number: | 6042 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.rfi.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6744-5061 |
| Twitter: | @jhnaismith |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-naismith-4908b316/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017,09 - current Interim then permanent (from 2019, 06) Director, Rosalind Franklin Institute
- 2017,06 - current Professor of Structural Biology, University of Oxford
- 2017,06 - 2019,06 Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute
- 1995,01 - 2017,06 Lecturer, Reader and Bishop Wardlaw Professor & Director of BSRC, University of St Andrews
- 1993,01 - 1994,12 NATO post-doctoral Fellow, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, TX
- 1989,10 - 1992,09 Carnegie Scholar and PhD student in Structural Biology, Thesis Prize, University of Manchester
- 1985,10 - 1989,06 BSc student, Chemistry, 1st Class, Class Medal, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biology
- Chemical biology
- Natural products
- Pathogenic bacteria
- Enzyme mechanism
- Membrane proteins
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Horizon Price, The Royal Society of Chemistry (Awarded to the nanobody team)
- 2018 Tilden Prize, The Royal Society of Chemistry (Awarded to the scientist who has done the most to advance chemistry)
- 2016 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2014 Fellow of Royal Society (UK Science Academy)
- 2014 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2012 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science (UK Medical Science Academy)
- 2012 Rita & John Cornforth Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry (Awarded to a team (CCP4))
- 2012 - 2018 Advanced ERC Grant (TNT-NCB)
- 2010 Member of European Molecular Biology Organisation
- 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, (Scotland's Academy of Arts & Science)
- 2009 Jeremy Knowles Medal, The Royal Society of Chemistry ( under 55 most meritorious contribution to Chemical Biology)
- 2004 Corday-Morgan Medal, The Royal Society of Chemistry (aged 36 or under, most significant contribution to chemistry)
- 2004 Colworth Medal, The Biochemical Society (most promising Biochemist in the UK aged 36 or under)
- 2001 Leverhulme Trust Molecular Biology Prize, The Leverhulme Trust ( most significant contribution under 40)
- 2000 Carbohydrate Chemistry Prize 2000, The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2000 - 2005 BBSRC Career Development Fellowship
- 1000 Talent Scholar (Chinese Academy of Science)
