1. Gideon John Davies was born on 6 July 1964 and is a professor of chemistry in the Structural Biology Laboratory at the University of York, England.
16 Facts About Gideon Davies
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In 2016 Gideon Davies was appointed the Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor at the University of York.
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Gideon Davies has recently been elected to the Council of the Royal Society.
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Gideon Davies was educated at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in 1990 for research on the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase isolated from the bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus, and supervised by Herman Watson and Len Hall.
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Gideon Davies was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bristol in 2007.
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Gideon Davies was appointed Professor at the University of York in 2001 and awarded a Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professorship in 2016.
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Gideon Davies has collaborated with Alywn Jones, Bernard Henrissat, Steve Withers and David Vocadlo.
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Gideon Davies research investigates the biological chemistry of carbohydrates, from their structure to their roles in enzymology, glycobiology, use as biofuels and implications for gut microbiota.
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Gideon Davies's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, European Research Council and Alzheimer's Research UK.
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Gideon Davies was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2010 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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In 2010, Gideon Davies was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Gideon Davies's research is having an immense impact on carbohydrate chemistry and biology and biological catalysis generally.
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Gideon Davies was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014, his nomination reads.
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Gideon Davies, who is Professor of Biological Chemistry at University of York, has made world-leading contributions to Biochemistry.
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Gideon Davies has made fundamental additions to our understanding of enzyme mechanism and carbohydrate biochemistry.
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Gideon Davies was awarded the John and Rita Cornforth Award of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020 and the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2019 Gideon Davies was a Haworth Memorial Lectureship of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 and a Global Energy Award of Institution of Chemical Engineers winner in 2016.