Experience

Bitesize Bio
• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Managing Editor

  • Apr 2021 - Present


The University of Edinburgh

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Bioinformatician

  • Jul 2011 - Apr 2021

  With guidance from NC-IUPHAR (the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of International Union for Basic and Clinical Pharmacology), the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), and over 700 experts worldwide, I work with a team of database developers and curators to undertake the curation and annotation of the pharmacological, physiological and genetic properties of human and rodent receptors, ion channels and other drug targets, together with the substances that act on them, from the primary literature and external resources, for the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY database (GtoPdb). Together, NC-IUPHAR and the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) oversee the development of GtoPdb (http://www.guidetopharmacology.org), a database for information on the targets of licensed drugs and other targets of current research interest, such as those linked to human disease. With support from the Wellcome Trust, and BPS, GtoPdb is being expanded to cover all the (human) targets of current licensed drugs and those with potential to be targets of future therapeutics, including immunological targets. Our goal is to provide scientists, doctors, allied professions and the general public with a ‘one stop shop’ source of information on how drugs work, and to help researchers to design experiments using the appropriate reagents. Show less



Medical Research Council

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Investigator Scientist

  • 2004 - Apr 2011

  A professional Senior Research Scientist leading all activities and responsibilities within an internationally competitive programme of medical research at the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • 2002 - 2004

  Delineation of the full spectrum of signal transduction pathways that are targeted by G protein-coupled receptors in the reproductive system.

• Wellcome Trust/MRC Reseach Fellow

  • 1999 - 2002



University of Cape Town

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • Jan 1996 - Dec 1998

  Signal transduction and trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors. Signal transduction and trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors.