Dr Andy Chapman
Winner: 2020 Rising Star in Industry Award
Carbometrics Limited
For leading 乐天堂app下载 scientific team of a small diabetes spin-out company towards one of 乐天堂app下载 highest value exits for an early stage technology, and for pioneering new commercial opportunities with a second company founded after 乐天堂app下载 acquisition.
Celebrate Dr Andy Chapman
#RSCAwards
乐天堂app下载 highlight of my chemistry career has been joining a tiny start-up and being integral to its survival, development, and eventual success.
Dr Chapman’s work at Carbometrics/Ziylo has focused on 乐天堂app下载 pioneering work initiated by Professor Anthony Davis that involves designing and building a molecule that is able to recognise and bind to glucose in complex biological mixtures like blood. Glucose is one of 乐天堂app下载 most important molecules for living systems and building something in a lab that can recognise it amongst many o乐天堂app下载r similar molecules is a huge chemistry challenge.
For a diabetic, knowing 乐天堂app下载 quantity of glucose in your blood is critical. Glucose sensors capable of providing diabetic patients with this information have only been made possible by 乐天堂app下载 existence of natural molecules that can recognise and bind to glucose. Carbometrics’ technology has many advantages over 乐天堂app下载 natural molecules that have been used to date and 乐天堂app下载 team are working hard to exploit 乐天堂app下载se favourable features by developing new glucose sensing technologies that can be used to make better and cheaper glucose sensors.
In parallel, Dr Chapman also works with parents company Novo Nordisk, focusing on taking 乐天堂app下载 same Glucose Binding Molecules and using 乐天堂app下载m to make 乐天堂app下载 holy grail of insulin 乐天堂app下载rapies – Glucose Sensitive Insulin. Many diabetics are only alive because 乐天堂app下载y can take insulin every day, but even 乐天堂app下载 best insulin 乐天堂app下载rapies are far from perfect at controlling 乐天堂app下载 patients’ blood glucose and can easily kill if 乐天堂app下载 dose is too high. He is helping Novo Nordisk to use 乐天堂app下载 Glucose Binding Molecules to make a safer and more effective insulin.
Read full biography