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Dr Paul Beales
Title
Senior Translational Research Fellow (Medicinal Chemistry for Targeted Drug Delivery)Phone
0113 34(39101)Address
Centre for Molecular Nanoscience,
Chemistry Building 4.10b,
University of Leeds,
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Research Interests
- Biomolecular self-assembly
- Membrane biophysics
- Biomolecular adhesion and molecular recognition
- Bottom-up synthetic biology
- Biomimetic materials
- Biological soft matter
- Bionanotechnology
- Medical applications of soft biomaterials
About
- Postdoctoral Research Associate under Prof. T. Kyle Vanderlick, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University (2008-2010)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate under Prof. T. Kyle Vanderlick, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University (2005-2008)
- Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Wilson C.K. Poon and Stefan U. Egelhaaf, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh (2001-2005). Thesis: Domain formation in binary lipid vesicles studied by fluorescence microscopy.
- Undergraduate degree: M.Phys. in physics from the University of Edinburgh (1997-2001).
Paul’s current research interests include, but are not limited to, applications of nucleic acid-functionalised membranes, novel strategies for targeted drug delivery, therapeutic encapsulation in novel lipid-based systems, fundamental interactions between artificial cells and drug delivery systems (efficiency of intra-cellular transport) or nanoparticles (potential nanotoxicity), and development of more sophisticated artificial cellular models.
Collaboration
Past & present collaborators:
- Prof. Kyle Vanderlick (Yale University)
- Prof. Corey Wilson (Yale University)
- Prof. Fred Sigworth (Yale University)
- Prof. John Groves (Princeton University)
- Prof. Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh)
- Prof. Stefan Egelhaaf (Heinrich-Heine-Universität)
- Prof. Mike Cates (University of Edinburgh)
- Prof. Vernita Gordon (University of Texas at Austin)
- Prof. Peter Olmsted (University of Leeds)
- Prof. Fred MacKintosh (Vrije University)
- Prof. John Seddon (Imperial College London)
- Dr. Lindsay Sawyer (University of Edinburgh)
