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About Christopher J. Schofield
- Christopher Joseph Schofield (also known as Chris Schofield) is the Head of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Chris Schofield is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry and a Fellow of Hertford College.
- Prof Schofield studied functional, structural and mechanistic understanding of enzymes that employ oxygen and 2-oxoglutarate as a co-substrate.
- His work has opened up new possibilities in antibiotic research, oxygen sensing, and gene regulation.After work on plant and microbial oxygenases, he studied uncharacterised human oxygenases.
- His research has identified unanticipated roles for oxygenases in regulating gene expression, importantly in the cellular hypoxic response, and has revealed new post-translational modifications to chromatin and RNA splicing proteins.
- The work has identified new opportunities for medicinal intervention.
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