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Professor of Chemical Biology
Director of the PSIBS Biomedical Imaging Centre
Current: Professor of Chemical Biology (2005-date) and Director of the PSIBS Biomedical Imaging Centre (2008-date), University of Birmingham
2005 promoted to Professor in Chemistry, University of Warwick
2004-2005 Reader in Chemistry, University of Warwick
2002-2004 Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Warwick.
1994-2002 Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Warwick.
1993-1994 Royal Society European Science Exchange Programme Postdoctoral Fellow, with Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.
1990-1993 Ph.D., Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
(Supervisor: Prof. E.C. Constable
M.A. (Cantab.) 1994.
Awards:1990-1993 The Ciba-Geigy Ph.D. Scholarship in Inorganic Chemistry
1987-1990 B.A., Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Natural Sciences Tripos (Chemistry) 1st Class Honours
Awards: 1990 The Rawlins Prize for Natural Sciences.
1990 Senior College Scholarship.
1989 College Scholarship and Prize.
2004 Awarded the Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship 2004-5 of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Dalton Division)
2002 Awarded the Bob Hay lectureship by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group)
1997 Awarded the Westminster Prize at a special event at the House of Commons for developing 'an inexpensive and simple approach to controlling molecular architecture and thus function' by Chemistry Research for Britain
Mike Hannon is awarded the Westminster prize at the House of Commons by Nobel Laureate, Professor John Walker, FRS.
2006-9 Chair of EU COST Action D39 Metallo-Drug Design and Action
2007 International Advisory Committee, Dalton Discussion 10: "Metals in Medicine"
2005/6 Leader of the bid for a new EU COST Action in the field of Metallo-drug
2004 Appointed by D20 as coordinator of the bid for a new COST action (D39) in the field of metallo-drugs
2003 Invited Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the journal "Supramolecular Chemistry" focusing on some of the leading young supramolecular chemists from across the world
2001 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the international journal "Supramolecular Chemistry"
2001 Member of the Committee of RSC Coordination Chemistry Discussion Group
2000 Appointed by the DTI to the Management Committee of the EU COST D20 Action, 'Metal compounds in the treatment of cancer and viral diseases'
1999 Visiting lectureship, NCSR Demokritos, Athens
The 1999 and 2003 McCamley Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Warwick. (Awarded annually to the best Chemistry lecturer as assessed by student reports).
Mike Hannon receives the1999 McCamley prize from Head of Department Peter Derrick
Research Funding to support our programme comes from the European Union, BBSRC, EPSRC, UK Industries, Leverhulme Trust, British Council, Wolfson Trust, Royal Society.
Research publications in the top scientific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA and Angewandte Chemie
Citations: Published work has been cited more than 2700 times.
For a full list of our PUBLICATIONS click here
Our research has attracted considerable attention in Europe, Asia and North America
In 2009 our research was highlighted on BBC Radio 4, and on a wide variety of science and medicine internet news sites.
In 2006 our research was highlighted on BBC television and radio, on radio Saga FM, in the Spanish national newspaper El Pais, in Pharmacy Business, and on a wide variety of science and medicine internet news sites.
In 2003 our work was highlighted in the Royal Society of Chemistry magazine, Chemistry in Britain
In 2002 our work was highlighted in Scientific American (USA), Materials Research Bulletin (USA), Mens & Wetenschap (Holland) and in the ChemWeb Magazine (the Alchemist) and on the UniSci website.
In 2000 highlights appeared in IPP&T (Canada) and Machinery and Materials (Hong Kong)
In 1999 our work was highlighted in Ingeneria Quimica (Spain) and in British Commercial News
In 1998 a television interview about our work was broadcast on British Satellite News
In 1997 an interview about our work broadcast on the BBC Radio World Service 'Science in Action' programme and our research was highlighted in the Financial Times(London) and in Chemistry and Industry
Gordon Research Conference; Metals in Medicine , Andover, New Hampshire, USA, 2010
10th European Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, (EUROBIC-10), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010
"Metallo-Drug Design and Action" Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 2009
"Organising Non-Covalent Chemical Systems with Selected Functions" Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2009
9th European Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, (EUROBIC9), Wroclaw, Poland, 2008 (plenary)
2nd IMPRS symposium "New frontiers in Chemical Biology", MPI Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany, 2008
2007 13th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC-13), Vienna, Austria
2007 Special metallo-drug design symmposium as part of 10th International Conference on Platinum coordination compounds in Cancer Chemotherapy (ISPCC), Verona, Italy
Gordon Research Conference; Metals in Medicine , Oxford, 2006
2006 ESF research conference; Metal-Nucleic Acid interactions, Athens, Greece, Nov 06
2006 "Advanced Metal-Organic Chemistry" Autumn school organised by the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry HRSMC together with the International Graduate College "Template Directed Synthesis" (Universität Münster), Oct 2006
2006 Gordon Research Conference; Organic Structure and Properties , Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA
2005 The DFG Graduiertenkolleg Nikolaus Symposium, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
RSC-SCF-Academie des Sciences Anglo-French Chemistry Prize Symposium; Synthesis, Nanochemistry and Applications, Paris, France, 2005
European Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, (EuroBIC) Germany, 2004
International Symposium on Supramolecular Science and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2004
The International symposium on Metallo-drugs for anti-cancer and anti-viral therapy (COST D20 mid term meeting), Trieste, Italy, 2003 (plenary)
35th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC-35), Heidelberg, Germany, 2002
European Science Foundation meeting, " The inorganic side of molecular architecture ", San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 2002
10th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC-10), Florence, Italy, 2001
6th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Cardiff, 2001
2nd International Symposium on Supramolecular Science and Technology, Belgium, 2000
European Science Foundation meeting, "Chemistry and Physics of Multifuntional Materials; Taming Molecular Complexity", San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 1999
5th International Symposium on Applied Bioinorganic Chemistry, Corfu, Greece, 1999
Mike Hannon at ICBIB in Florence in 2001, describing the dramatic intra-molecular DNA coiling induced by our supramolecular cylinders .
University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2007
Leiden University, Holland, 2004.
Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2004.
Dublin City University, Ireland, 2003.
University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.
University of Basel, Switzerland, 2003.
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2003.
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 2003.
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, France, 2002.
University of Vienna, Austria, 2000.
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, France, 2000.
NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece,1999.
University of Athens, Greece, 1998.
Gordon Research Seminar in
Bioinorganic Chemistry, Ventura, California, USA, 2010 (photo)
Susana Vitorino,
"Dinuclear supramolecular rhodium (III) diimine complexes as
DNA-binding cytotoxic drugs"
Metallo-Drug Design and Action"
Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 2009 (photo)
Alexandra Pope"Supramolecular Anticancer Agents: Issues
surrounding standard in vitro cytotoxicity testing"
3rd European
Conference on Chemistry for Life Science (ECCLS), September 2-5, 2009
Frankfurt am Main Germany, (photo)
Siriporn Phongtongpasuk,Molecular Recognition of a three-way RNA junction by a Metallosupramolecular Helicate: Gel
electrophoresis studies'.
14th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC-14), Nagoya, Japan, 2009
Anna Leczkowska, "Non-covalent
DNA Binding Properties of Novel Supramolecular Ruthenium Metallo-drugs"
9th European Biological
Inorganic Chemistry Conference. Wroclaw, Poland, 2008. (photo)
Lucia
Cardo, "Synthesis and DNA binding studies of end-functionalised metallo-supramolecular cylinders".