John Sutherland

John Sutherland

Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College; visiting Professor at Harvard

Professor John Sutherland is a Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK, a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and visiting Professor at Harvard. John’s research concerns the origin of life – how did chemistry initiate biology and to what extent did it shape its basic structure and function? His research has established prebiotically plausible syntheses of the building blocks of the informational, catalytic and compartment–forming macromolecules crucial to life, and his group is seeking to establish how these building blocks became linked. John’s research has been recognized, inter alia, by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and their Darwin Medal, and by the Tilden Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr. Sutherland said: “Are we alone? Such a profound question – Copernicus have a great approach to trying to find the answer and I’m delighted to join forces with its hugely talented team.”