Colin Groom Executive Director

Dr Colin Groom has a BSc in biotechnology and a PhD in protein crystallography from the University of Leeds, and held postdoctoral appointments at Leeds and at Massey University, New Zealand. Since then, he has worked in the pharmaceutical industry, joining Pfizer Global Research, Sandwich, UK in 1994, where he established a protein crystallography facility, and then established and headed up molecular informatics units in both Sandwich and in the USA. He joined UCB (Celltech) in November 2002. Dr Groom was Co-Director of the International School of Crystallography: Molecules to Medicines via Crystallography held in Erice, Italy in May 2008. He has been at the forefront of applying structural information to drug design and has a number of publications and patents in this area. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the British Crystallographic Association, and has contributed to BBSRC and EPSRC activities as a panel member. He is on the Editorial Boards of Current Computer-Aided Drug Design and Current Drug Discovery Technologies.