Nicholas Mitchell

Biography

Nick received an MChem degree from the University of Southampton and completed his PhD in Prof. Stefan Howorka’s group at UCL on the chemical modification of oligonucleotides. He remained at UCL as a PDRA under the joint supervision of Prof. Alethea Tabor and Prof. Helen Hailes to work on MRI and SPECT imaging of lipid nanoparticle drug/nucleic acid delivery before joining Prof. Richard Payne’s lab at the University of Sydney to develop novel peptide ligation methodologies. Nick took up a Nottingham Research Fellowship, based in the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, in October 2016; he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in 2019 and to Associate Professor in 2024. His group is interested in the photochemical, electrochemical, and biocatalytic modification of peptides and proteins.