Richard D. Horniblow PhD

I am a postdoctoral research fellow working in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham. I work in the research group of Chris Tselepis, looking at the different ways in which our diet can be linked to the onset of digestive diseases.

I studied Chemistry with Pharmacology as a degree, and then went on to undergo a PhD project that bridged between the School of Chemisty and the Medical School at the University of Birmingham, bringing together specialists across the sciences. During this research I developed a dietary iron chelator (a molecule that binds to iron in the gut), which is currently being investigated in a human clinical trial. The aim of this project was to create a medicinal agent that can help with digestive diseases and prevent cancer.