Dr John Zhao

Dr John Zhao

Post-doctoral researcher (2006-2008)

John obtained his PhD from King’s College, London, where his supervisor was Professor Colin Reese, FRS. He then took up an NIH post-doctoral fellowship with Marvin Caruthers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He worked at Cruachem Ltd (Glasgow), before post-doctoral positions with David Lilley (University of Dundee) and Tom Brown (2006-2008), where he worked on DNA triple helices. John is currently a research fellow at Birmingham University. His research interests include the synthesis of nucleic acid derivatives and their application in biological systems.