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About The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology

The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology brings together more than 400 researchers from across the University – especially from the biological sciences, physical sciences and medicine – who share the common goals of using experiment and simulation, developing new methods and approaches, and combining different techniques that span the disciplines to promote world-class interdisciplinary research to understand macromolecular behaviour in health and disease. As a mechanism to improve innovation, partnerships between academia and companies are playing an increasingly important role. “In working with the University of Leeds on this project, we gain access to expertise from many disciplines which is being focussed on the prediction and prevention of protein aggregation – this is one of the key obstacles facing the development of biotherapeutics today” - Andrew Buchanan, Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca Despite huge investment and changes in practices over the years, the rate of drug discovery has not increased and the cost of bringing effective drugs to market remains very high. We have strong links to a wide range of companies in the Life Sciences sector – this ensures that our research is highly relevant to industry, and has the strongest potential for translation.

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