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British chemist and academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akane Kawamura is a Japanese chemist who is Professor of Chemical Biology at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research considers the chemistry of epigenetics. She was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award for her development of chemical probes to study biological processes.
Akane Kawamura | |
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Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Oxford Newcastle University |
Thesis | Structural investigations of arylamine N-acetyltransferases from eukaryotes (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Edith Sim |
Other academic advisors | Christopher J. Schofield |
Kawamura was an undergraduate student in chemistry at the University of Oxford.[citation needed] She remained at Oxford for graduate research, where she worked alongside Edith Sim on structural investigations into eukaryotes.[1] After completing her doctorate, she moved into the biotechnology sector, where she worked on drug discovery.[citation needed] She returned to academia in 2009, when she joined Christopher J. Schofield at Oxford and worked on the development of chemical probes.[2][3]
In 2012, Kawamura was awarded a British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence Senior Fellowship and a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship.[2] She was made a lecturer in 2016 and an associate professor in 2019.[citation needed] Her research considers epigenetics, with a focus on the methylation of DNA. She studies the enzymes and proteins that regulate methylation states.
In 2023, Kawamura was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Jeremy Knowles Award for her work on the development of chemical probes to study biological processes.[4][5]
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