Adam Le Gresley
Professor
Kingston University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Adam Le Gresley obtained his PhD from the University of Surrey, working under Professor Nikolai Kuhnert on the synthesis of Calix[4]arene derivatives for dynamic combinatorial libraries. He undertook his postdoctoral work as an NIH Research Fellow at Drexel College of Medicine in the USA, working on the synthesis and evaluation of "caged" compounds for probing biological pathways. Since joining Kingston University in 2009, He have established a research group in organic and analytical chemistry, funded by industrial sponsors such as GlaxoSmithKline and LGC Ltd, working on the design and synthesis of fluorogenic compounds for problem pathogen detection and method development for NMR metabolomics/2D qNMR for complex mixture analysis and metrology. He have collaborations with institutions in Germany, Australia and the USA. He have 20 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 2 patents.
Research Interest
Skin Health, Metrology and G-quadruplex ligand development for cancer treatment