Raymond Dwek

Professor Raymond Allen Dwek BSc DPhil DSc FRS (born 10 November 1941) was a scientist at the University of Oxford and founded its spin-off biotechnology company, Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. (acquired by Celltech in 2003).

He was educated at Carmel College, then the University of Manchester where he studied Chemistry (1960-64). He then went to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil in Physical Chemistry in 1966. He is a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute, which he founded in 1991. From 2000-06 he was also Head of the Department of Biochemistry. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute. Professor Dwek is also the President of the Institute of Biology, UK, Scientific Advisor to the President of Ben-Gurion University, Israel and to the Institute of Biochemistry in Bucharest.

Bibliography

*cite book|last=Dwek|first=Raymond A.|title=Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (N.M.R.) in Biochemistry: Applications to Enzyme Systems|year=1973|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|id=ISBN 0-19-854614-9
*cite book|last=Price|first=Nicholas C.|coauthors=and Raymond A. Dwek|title=Principles and Problems in Physical Chemistry for Biochemists|year=1974|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|id=ISBN 0-19-854129-5
**(1979). 2nd ed. ISBN 0-19-855511-3
*cite book|last=Campbell|first=Iain D.|coauthors=and Raymond A. Dwek|title=Biological Spectroscopy|year=1984|publisher=Benjamin/Cummings|location=Menlo Park, Calif.|id=ISBN 0-8053-1847-X

External links

* [http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/ Department of Biochemistry]
* [http://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/glycob/ Oxford Glycobiology Institute]
* [http://www.iob.org/ Institute of Biology]
* [http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/ancham/79/i17/pdf/0907myshoes.pdf Profile of Raymond Dwek] from [http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/toc.page?incoden=ancham&indecade=0&involume=79&inissue=17 the September 1, 2007 issue of "Analytical Chemistry"]