Dr Sunil Vadhia

Dr Sunil Vadhia

Graduate student (2002-2005)

Sunil completed his MChem degree in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Leeds which involved a 6-month project in his final year in the McGowan group focusing on Organometallic Chemistry (1996-2000). He then worked for GE Healthcare Life Sciences in Amersham as an R&D Chemist in the Nucleic Acid Chemistry area and collaborated with the Brown group during this period (2000-2002). This confirmed his interest in the area and he subsequently moved to Southampton to begin his PhD degree in the Brown group (2002-2005). His thesis was entitled “The effects of modified nucleosides in DNA duplexes and triplexes”, and focused on reducing primer-dimer formation in multiplex PCR, developing new HyBeacon probes for RT-PCR and improving the binding affinity and selectivity of triplex forming oligonucleotides. Sunil continued in the group and began a 1-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship which involved the synthesis and study of various thymidine analogues in DNA triplexes (2007-2008). He now works for Thermo Fisher Scientific within their Human Identification Kit business.