Gideon Davies

Gideon Davies, FRS leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York, U.K. Following a PhD in Bristol, UK, he worked at the EMBL Hamburg Outstation and Grenoble with periods in Uppsala and Vancouver.

He is most renowned for his work on carbohydrate-active enzymes, their 3D structures and the structural dissection of their reaction mechanisms. He pioneered the analysis of reaction conformational itineraries (using crystallography to show how enzymes distort their sugar substrates) and now applies mechanistic and structural insight for development of novel inhibitors and enzyme probes.