Prof. Darren Dixon

CSO, cofounder

@: darren.dixon@cortexorganics.com

Darren Dixon is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He took this post in 2008 following appointments at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge. Concurrently, he is the Knowles-Williams Tutorial Fellow in organic chemistry at Wadham College and is the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthesis for Biology and Medicine. His research centres on the development of new catalyst-enabled synthetic methodologies and their application to the synthesis of structurally complex scaffolds, natural products and molecules of biological significance. He has raised >£15M of research council, European Commission and industry sponsored research and training grant income. He has published over 210 primary research papers. His research has been recognised by awards including an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, the RSC Tilden Prize, the RSC Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award, the AstraZeneca Research Award and the Novartis Lectureship.