Duncan Laverty

Lead Scientist @ Nxera Pharma

About

Biochemist skilled in enabling membrane protein systems for structural biology and biophysical assays. Of particular interest has been the study of disease relevant ion channels and which form important therapeutic targets.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Greater Cambridge Area

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Skill

Line Management, Target Identification, Project Planning, Team Leadership, Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, Molecular Biology, Fluorescence Microscopy, Molecular Cloning, Protein Expression, Cell Culture, Protein Purification, Microscopy, Cell Biology, Electrophysiology, Confocal Microscopy, Western Blotting, Immunohistochemistry, Structural Modeling, Microbiology, Protein Chemistry

Experience

Lead Scientist

Nxera Pharma

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Senior Scientist II

Nxera Pharma

2023-9 - 2024-2 · 6 mos

Greater Cambridge Area

Research Associate

Astex Pharmaceuticals

2019-5 - 2023-9 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Investigator Scientist

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)

2017-4 - 2019-5 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge

Postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Radu Aricescu

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

University of Oxford

2016-6 - 2017-3 · 10 mos

Department of Structural Biology

Postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Radu Aricescu

Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Researcher

UCL

2011-10 - 2016-6 · 4 yrs 9 mos

London

Graduate student at University College London in laboratory of Prof. Trevor Smart, within Dept of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology , studying Structure and Pharmacology of the GABA-A Receptor and pLGIC bacterial homologs. Employed a combination of structural biology (X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry and electron microscopy) and electrophysiological approaches to study ion channel activation and modulation. During my time at UCL I presented work at international (Biophysical Society Annual Meeting) and regional conferences (UCL Neuroscience Symposium), reviewed papers submitted for peer review (including articles submitted to Nature, PNAS and Biophysical Journal) and supervised undergraduate and visiting Masters students.

Professional Research Assistant

University of Colorado Boulder

2009-1 - 2011-9 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Boulder, Colorado

PRA in Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (2009-2011) in the lab of Dr Michael Stowell & in Department of Engineering at Nanomaterials Characterization Facility (2009-2010)