Dr Christos Pliotas was the recipient of this year’s prestigious RSE award
Dr Christos Pliotas was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship award, one out of only three to be awarded this year throughout the UK, by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (see the RSE press release here).
This prestigious award will give the opportunity to Dr Pliotas to set up his own lab as a principal investigator and group leader at the Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC), School of Chemistry, at the University of St Andrews.
Dr Pliotas’s group will investigate the structure and function of complex integral membrane proteins. Particular focus will be given on the gating mechanism of the mechanosensitive ion channels, which are promising antibacterial targets, in order to develop new tools to combat the major health threat , antimicrobial resistance