Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins

Max Ryadnov leads Biometrology research area at NPL. He is also a visiting Professor at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology. Max obtained his MSc in Biochemistry (summa cum laude) from the Russian Academy of Sciences and PhD in Chemistry from Moscow State University. Following his academic tenures at Bristol (URF) and Leicester (Lecturer), he joined NPL as a Principal Research Scientist in 2010. Over the last 10 years, his contributions to physical and life sciences have been recognised by a NESTA Crucible Innovation Award, a SUPA lectureship in Chemical Physics with the University of Edinburgh and Fellowships in the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Biology. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications (incl. primary reports in Angew Chem, JACS, Nature Mater, Nature Commun, PNAS), numerous book chapters, two books, several international patents, and is a co-editor of two RSC book series – Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins and Synthetic Biology.

Search and Destroy: Versatile Proteins Offer Unique Structural Solutions Against Uracil in DNA;

HSV Membrane Glycoproteins, Their Function in Viral Entry and Their Use in Vaccine Studies;

Branched Polymeric Polypeptides with Poly[Lys];

Peptide-mediated Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease;

Nanoscale Chemical Characterisation of Peptides and Proteins Using Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy