Professor of Molecular Haemostasis
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Jim Huntington, PhD, FMedSci, is Professor of Molecular Haemostasis at the University of Cambridge. He graduated in 1989 from the University of Kansas with bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and mathematics. His undergraduate research was conducted in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and at the Merck subsidiary InterX. He obtained a PhD from Vanderbilt University in 1997 for research on the biophysical characterisation of members of the serpin family of proteins. His research on the serpins continued during his postdoc with Robin Carrell at the University of Cambridge. He was appointed principal investigator at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research in 1999, tenured Reader in 2007, and Professor in 2011. His research currently focuses on the regulation of blood coagulation through the assembly of large, multi-protein enzyme complexes. He has founded eight biotech companies and has multiple granted patents.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
13:15 – 13:30 ICT
OC 07.5 - A 3.3Å cryo-EM structure of an engineered high-affinity human prothrombinase complex
Saturday, June 22, 2024
14:00 – 14:15 ICT
PB1108 - Ordered cleavage of prothrombin by Hopsarin D in the absence of membranes
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
13:45 – 14:45 ICT