1. Nigel Scrutton is Director of the UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub, Director of the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Synthetic Biology Research Centre, and Co-founder, Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the 'fuels-from-biology' company C3 Biotechnologies Ltd.
Nigel Scrutton is Professor of Enzymology and Biophysical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.
Nigel Scrutton is former Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.
Nigel Scrutton graduated from King's College London with a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1985.
Nigel Scrutton was a Benefactors' Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge where he completed his doctoral research in 1988 supervised by Richard Perham.
Nigel Scrutton was awarded a Doctor of Science degree in 2003 by the University of Cambridge.
Nigel Scrutton has held successive research fellowships over 29 years from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, St John's College, Cambridge, the Royal Society, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Nigel Scrutton has been Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Cardiff University, and adjunct professor at VISTEC and Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
Nigel Scrutton has made major contributions to the study of enzyme catalysis, the mechanisms and structures of enzymes and the photochemistry of photoreceptor proteins.
Nigel Scrutton's group has pioneered investigations that have led to both deep understanding and recognition of the general importance of quantum tunnelling and protein dynamics in enzyme H-transfer and conformational ensemble sampling in electron transfer reactions.
Nigel Scrutton's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Nigel Scrutton has supervised about 70 students for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, about 60 postdoctoral research workers.
Nigel Scrutton has published over 500 research papers and several patents.
In 2015 Nigel Scrutton co-founded the company C3 Biotechnologies Ltd to commercialise technologies for chemicals, fuels and materials production.
Nigel Scrutton was founding Director of the Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre SYNBIOCHEM, which he established in 2014 following major investment by the UK government in synthetic biology.
Nigel Scrutton is a former member of BBSRC Council.
Nigel Scrutton was awarded the Colworth Medal in 1999 from the Biochemical Society; the Enzyme Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2002; the Rita and John Cornforth Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009; the Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2019.
Nigel Scrutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1996; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2009; a Member of the Lister Institute in 2004.
Nigel Scrutton married Nia Francis Roberts in 1989 with whom he has two sons and one daughter.