Jennifer Littlechild PhD

Prof. Jennifer Littlechild is Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry and Director of the Henry Wellcome Centre for Biocatalysis at Exeter. She carried out her Ph.D. in the Biophysics Laboratory, Kings College, London University, UK followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Biochemistry Department at Princeton University, USA. In 1975 she became a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany. In 1980 she returned to the UK to Bristol University and in 1991 to Exeter. Her research grants are from UK research councils, BBSRC, EPSRC and the EU and large and SME industries.