Professor Akane Kawamura FRSC
Winner: 2023 九州影院 Biology Interface mid-career Prize: Jeremy Knowles Award
Newcastle University
For the development and application of cutting-edge technologies and chemical probes to study and modulate therapeutically important biological processes.
Celebrate Professor Akane Kawamura
My interest in chemistry was initially sparked by a chance encounter at the age of 12, when a friend’s cousin, a university student studying pharmacy, introduced me to a chemical structure of aspirin in her text book.
Professor Akane Kawamura works at the interface between chemistry, biology and medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of enzymes and proteins that are linked to diseases, such as cancer, and developing chemical tools to study and modulate their function.
Akane’s group employs a variety of biochemical, biophysical and cell-based methods, alongside the development of peptide and small molecule based chemical tools. Her group has a particular interest in proteins that regulate epigenetic modifications on histones and DNA to improve our understanding of their mechanisms and how they influence the expression of genes in cancer. Her group also works on tackling challenging protein-protein interactions of biomedical importance, including cancer targets, chemokine signalling and inflammation.
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