Richard Bayliss PhD

Richard Bayliss graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1997 with a 1st class honors degree in Natural Sciences, in which he specialized in biological, organic, and theoretical chemistry. He completed his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 2000 and was elected to a Research Fellowship at Trinity College.

He continued his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Elena Conti at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, funded by an EMBO Long Term Fellowship, and in the group of Gabriel Waksman in Birkbeck College, London. He established his independent research group at the Institute of Cancer Research in London in 2006, funded by a Royal Society Research Fellowship and Cancer Research UK. He moved to the University of Leicester in 2011, as a Reader in the Department of Biochemistry, and in 2014 was promoted to a Chair and awarded the Frank May Prize. Prof. Bayliss relocated to the University of Leeds in 2016 to take up his current role as Professor of Molecular Medicine and a member of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology. He became Head of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2018.