Gavin Miller

Biography

Gavin Miller was born in Newport, Wales and read Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry at UMIST where he was awarded an MChem. Continuing his studies at the University of Manchester, Gavin undertook a PhD in carbohydrate chemistry (investigating multivalency).

He then undertook PDRA positions at Brown University (polyketides) and St Andrews University (inositol mimetics). Gavin then worked in industry, firstly at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, on the design of new treatments for primary dysmenorrhea and secondly at Peakdale Molecular on the design of an anti-nicotine vaccine.

Gavin returned to academia and the University of Manchester in 2009, firstly as a PDRA in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology developing chemical synthesis approaches to heparan sulfate oligosaccharides and secondly as a fixed-term lecturer, in 2014, within the School of Chemistry. 

He took up his current lectureship in chemistry at Keele in 2016 and was promoted to Professor of Biological Chemistry in 2021.

Research and scholarship

Our research program in glycoscience sits at the chemistry/biology interface. We are developing synthetic and chemoenzymatic methodologies to construct important biological carbohydrates. Some examples are illustrated below. For more information please visit the Group research pages and follow us on Twitter.

Teaching

• CHE-40052: MRes Research Project
• CHE-40024: Research Topics in Chemistry
• CHE-40021: MChem Research Project
• CHE-30039: Advanced Organic Chemistry