Dr John Gardiner B.Sc., Ph.D., C.Chem. M.R.S.C.

Research interests

Carbohydrates and Oligosaccharides: We have active interests in developing new methods to provide biologically-relevant oligosaccharides, with a focus on tools to probe chemical biology and for biomedical targets. Particularly significant interests are in the synthetic heparin oligosaccharide area where we have recently reported a large jump in synthetic scalability for long heparins, a new accelerated block synthesis and have also developed the longest synthetic heparin-like sequences yet reported.

Biocatalysis: Collaboration with Prof Nigel Scruttons lab discovering, developing, engineering and applying new enzyme catalysis for high value chemical synthesis, using screening, engineering and synthetic biology.

Heterocycles: Oligo-heterocyclic synthesis and biological activities (eg DNA ligands).

Dendrimers, polyaryls and nanographene: New arhcitectures based on polaryles and their applications nanographenes.