Medicinal Chemistry Advisor
Robert Westwood studied Chemistry at the University of Hull and gained his PhD with Dr R.M. Scrowston and Professor N.B. Chapman. He was a post-doctoral fellow with Professor J.W. Lown in the University of Alberta, Edmonton and with Professor D.H. Williams in the University of Cambridge. In the industrial environment he was Research Director for Roussel Laboratories Ltd in the UK before joining Roussel Uclaf in Paris as Responsable Recherche Immunology. After a brief period as Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Hull University he then joined Cyclacel Ltd as Head of Preclinical Development. He is currently a visiting academic at the University of Oxford.