Glycomix was formed in 2007 by Dr Chris Lawson following the successful sale of Dextra Laboratories, now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Summit Corporation.
As outlined below, Chris brings many years of experience to the management of chemistry and the life sciences. As joint founder of Dextra Laboratories he was a member of the team that developed Dextra into a seriously successful Glycobiology company with a catalogue of key research carbohydrates and a specialist custom synthesis business focussed on sugar chemistry.
As a senior research manager at Tate & Lyle Research he helped to bring a number of important projects to market including Xanthan Gum and Sucralose. Chris was also in the research team lead by Professor Sir Dai Rees in Edinburgh that demonstrated how polysaccharides form networks and highly organized structures in living tissues which had enormous significance in the food and life science industries.
In the science of carbohydrates Chris has a particular interest in the chemistry of carbohydrate polymers with over 40 publications to date - click here for publications.
Brief Resume:
Over 40 publications (research papers, patents, book chapters)
Member, UK Glycoscience Network
Fellow: The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC., C.Chem., Registered Analytical Chemist)
Committee member, RSC Carbohydrate Group
Management Committee of VGCLLP (Acumentia)
Expert evaluator European Commission. Framework V, Life Sciences Directorate (Framework IV 1999-2000, Framework V 2000-2001): Key Action 1, Food Nutrition & Health. Key Action 2, Control of Infectious Disease. Framework VI (2003).
Expert evaluator and rapporteur European Commission. Framework VI (2005), Life Science & Health Consesus Group I-Unravelling the mechanisms and functions of post-translational modifications of proteins, Temporal and spatial proteomics in the cell.
Member Thames Valley Life Science Network
Referee Panels for, (a) Royal Society of Chemistry-Primary Publications, (b) Enzyme and Microbial Technology.
Member: (a) American Chemical Society (Division of Carbohydrates), (b) Society of Chemistry and Industry, (c) The Biochemical Society, (d) Society of Glyobiology, (e) French Glycobiology Society.
Ph.D in the Chemistry of Carbohydrates (Edinburgh, 1969)
Tate & Lyle R&D, Senior Research Manager, Quality Manager (1969-89)
Dextra Laboratories Ltd, Joint Managing and Marketing Director (1989-2007)
Glycomix Ltd, Managing Director (2007-)
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