IDM CPD-ACCREDITED SEMINAR: Angiotensin-converting enzyme and the road less travelled: Novel ACE inhibitors and post-translational modifications

Speaker

Emer.Prof Ed Sturrock is a Senior Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences and a founder member of the IDM.  The main focus areas of his research include structure-function aspects of the metallopeptidase angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), structure-based design of novel ACE and vasopeptidase inhibitors for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, the mechanisms involved in fibrosing tuberculous pericarditis, and the molecular machinery involved in ectodomain shedding of ACE.

Together with colleagues in the United States and the UK, he founded a spin-off company AngioDesign (UK) Ltd which focuses on the rational design of enhanced, next-generation drugs for proven disease targets.