5 July 2001

Dr Charlie Bond, of the Division of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology at the University of Dundee, is the recipient of a prestigious David Phillips Fellowship awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

The BBSRC's David Phillips Fellowship scheme is designed to support career development of outstanding young scientists who have demonstrated high potential during their research training and initial years of postdoctoral research. Only seven of these 5-year fellowships have been made this year and they include a research grant of up to £200K.

The interactions between proteins and nucleic acids that are crucial to many aspects of cell biology and are understandably a highly competitive area of research world-wide, and Dr Bond will be studying structural aspects of the recognition and manipulation of DNA by proteins during cellular processes such as DNA recombination and chromatin remodelling.

Dr Bond came to the School of Life Sciences in 1999 from the University of Sydney to work in the laboratory of Dr Bill Hunter.

On the announcement of the award Dr Bond said "With the support provided by this fellowship, I look forward to solving some interesting structures during the next five years."

The award of this Fellowship will allow Dr Bond to establish himself as an independent researcher.