Dr Philip Day PhD, FRSB, FRSC

Overview

Reader in Synthetic Biology and Quantitative Genomics, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health at Manchester University. Principle Investigator at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.  Philip is also Business Engagement Lead for the Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, Postgraduate Research Tutor and Biomed Sciences Academic Tutor and Academic Advisor. 

Biography

August 2007 to Present.  Reader in Synthetic Biology and Quantitative Genomics, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester University, and Principle Investigator at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.

2018 to present. Honorary Professor, Department of  Bioengineering, University California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

2013 to 2017. Honorary Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Irvine, California,  USA.

2006 to 2007. Visiting Professor of Applied Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie, Dortmund Institute of Technology, Germany. 

June 2004 to July 2007 Senior Lecturer in Genomics and Principal Investigator. Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, & Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester.

2002 to 2004. Senior Lecturer in Genomics. Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Medical School, University of Manchester.  

1998 to 2002.  Head of Gene Arrays and Technologies. Functional Genomics Unit, Divisions of Oncology and Infectious Diseases. Children’s Hospital, University of Zürich, Switzerland. 

1997 to 1998. Post-doctoral Fellow. .Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.  

1995 to 1997. Post-doctoral Fellow. The human gene mapping project, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.

1991 to 1995. Senior Scientist, Departments of Oncology and Haematology, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Children's Hospital, Birmingham. 

Qualifications

Chartered Scientist, 2016

Chartered Chemist, 2016

Fellow of the Society of Biology, 2008

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004

PhD, Wolfson Research Laboratories, Faculty of Sciences, Univ of Birmingham

MPhil, Wolfson Resarch Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, Univ of Birmingham 

BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Chartered Scientist, 2016

Chartered Chemist, 2016

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2004

Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2008

Senior Management Team, EGS

Business Engagement Champion, FMHS