Laura Itzhaki

Head of Department of Pharmacology | Co-Director of Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences
University of Cambridge

Laura's background is in Chemistry and Biochemistry. From 2003 to 2011 her group was located at the MRC Cancer Cell Unit in Cambridge UK. She moved to the University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology in 2013 and was appointed Professor of Structural Pharmacology in 2017. She is currently Head of Department of Pharmacology and co-Director of Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences. Her group is using protein engineering and design to interrogate and exploit proteostasis networks in the cell and thereby manipulate protein stability and disease outcome.