Andrew Hamilton

Biography

    Prof. Andrew Hamilton is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2009. He is the former Provost of Yale and served as chairman of the department of chemistry at Yale. Hamilton obtained his PhD from Cambridge University and was assistant professor of Chemistry at Princeton University and professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests lie at the interface of organic and biological chemistry, with particular focus on the use of synthetic design for the understanding, mimicry, and potential disruption of biological processes. His lab is most noted for the design of barbiturate hosts, farnesyl tranferase inhibitors, protein surface binders, and helix mimetics.  

Research Interest

    Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety [pds]