
Professor Nigel S Scrutton
Fellow 1999-2004
Research Interests
Structural enzymology with specific attention to protein-based electron transfer reactions, hydrogen ion tunnelling, relationship between protein structures and function and applications of redox enzymes.
Other Information
Benefactors’ Research Scholarship, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1985-1988
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, 1988-1991
Henry Humphreys Research Prize, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1989
St John’s College Research Fellowship, Cambridge, 1989-1992
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 1991-1999
Fellowship and Director of Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1992-1995
Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, 1999
Promoted to Professor of Biochemistry from 1.10.99
Lister Institute Research Professorship, 1999-2004
Appointed to Advisory Board of the MRC, October, 1999 and to the Biochemistry & Cell Biology Committee of BBSRC, May, 2000
Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
Awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge, 2003
Moved to University of Manchester, 2005
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005
Professor of Molecular Enzymology, 2005 – present
BBSRC Professional Research Fellow, 2006-2011
Assoc. Dean Research (FLS), University of Manchester, 2008 – present
Rita and John Carnforth Prize, RSC, 2009
Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, 2009
Director, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, 2010
Director Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, 2010-2019
Director Synthetic Biology Research Centre, 2014
Director UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub, 2019
Elected Fellow Royal Society, 2020