ELRIG DDD 2020 Poster – “Measuring coronavirus Spike: ACE2 binding affinity and kinetics using the Biacore 8K”
Read the poster presented at ELRIG DDD 2020: Download the PDF: Measuring Coronavirus Spike ACE2 Binding Affinity and Kinetics Using the Biacore 8K
Peak Proteins Welcomes Emma Cains
Peak Proteins welcomes Emma Cains who joins us as a Cell Culture Specialist. Emma is an experienced graduate bioscientist with almost 20 years’ experience in a variety of areas, from production and purification of antibodies and recombinant proteins to [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Dr Mark Elvin
Peak Proteins welcomes Dr Mark Elvin who joins the team as a Cell Culture Principal Scientist. Mark studied for a BSc in Microbial Sciences at the University of Huddersfield, UK, before going on to complete his PhD at the [...]
Happy 6th Birthday Peak Proteins!
It has been a difficult year for everyone with the global pandemic and an incredibly sad year for many. It’s still good to celebrate though and Peak Proteins wanted to mark our 6th birthday in a low key, social [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Claire Griffin
Peak Proteins welcomes Claire Griffin who joins us as a Cell Culture Scientist. Claire studied for BSc at Salford University UK in Biology, spending the second year of her degree course at the University of Toledo in Ohio. While [...]
Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry Platform: A Wonderful Cure for Protein Science Headaches
Listen to Mark Abbott, Rachel Rowlinson and Steve Harborne discuss protein purification, how protein mass spectrometry can be used to help solve problems and analyse proteins with some examples of how mass spectrometry has been used. [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Naimah Begum
Peak Proteins welcomes Naimah Begum who joins us as a Protein Scientist. Naimah has just recently graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc in microbiology, thoroughly enjoying the aspects of bacteriology and infection. Through numerous reports she [...]
Proteins, X-ray Crystal Structures and How to Get Them
An article from: MDC Connects: A Guide to Drug Discovery 2020 Watch Dr Derek Ogg's MDC Connects Webinar "Proteins, X-ray Crystal Structures and How to Get Them". Proteins are the targets for most marketed drugs today, and high-quality purified proteins [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Dr Ravneet Mandair
Peak Proteins welcomes Dr Ravneet Mandair who joins us as a Protein Purification Specialist. Rav studied for a BSc at Aston University in Birmingham UK in microbiology and immunology. Modules on her course included food microbiology, applied molecular biology [...]
Peak Proteins Exhibits at ELRIG Drug Discovery Digital
Peak Proteins is joining attendees and exhibitors at ELRIG Drug Discovery Digital 2020 for the first week from 6th to the 9th of October. We will also be presenting a poster: Measuring coronavirus Spike:ACE2 binding affinity and kinetics using [...]
Watch Dr Derek Ogg Discuss G6b-B – a Unique Platelet Receptor
Watch Dr Derek Ogg discuss G6b-B - a project carried out for Professor Yotis Senis of the University of Birmingham. Read more about the project in our blog "How Was the Structure of G6b-B Determined". This video has captions - [...]
Peak Proteins Moves into an Alternative Laboratory
“We were all set for a move into additional space in a ground floor suite in Block 21 of Alderley Park, at the end of April. The second Lighthouse Laboratory in the UK was located at Alderley Park, Cheshire and [...]
Bruntwood SciTech Innovation Video
Peak Proteins were delighted to be included among the great companies innovating in the Bruntwood SciTech community as we work on identifying target receptors for COVID-19 with our collaborators the Medicines Discovery Catapult and Retrogenix.
Customer Interview with Dr Ben Bax
Dr Ben Bax first approached Peak Proteins in 2019 for support in expressing glutamate receptors for structural determination. Dr Hazel Weir recently caught up with him by Zoom to discuss the project. Ben is a Reader in Structural Biology at [...]
Dr Derek Ogg – MDC Connects Webinar Series
Watch Dr Derek Ogg discuss protein synthesis and X-ray structure determination - part of the Medicines Discovery Catapult Connects Webinar Series - Structural Approaches for Drug Discovery. This video has captions - if you would like to see these [...]
Dr Steve Harborne’s SMALP Talk Part II
Listen to Part II of Dr Steve Harborne's talk about the SMALP'ed and detergent solubilised GPCRs - Results. This video has captions - if you would like to see these just click on "CC" on the control panel. [...]
Peak Proteins Welcomes Richard Mott
Peak Proteins welcomes Richard Mott who joins us as a Business Development Associate working with our Head of Scientific Business Development, Dr Hazel Weir. Richard has worked in the world of protein science for many years and already knows some [...]
A Farewell to Evie but Hopefully It Is “Au Revoir” Not “Goodbye”
Evie Rejnowicz joined us for a 4-month internship coordinated by the Medical Research Council DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership in late November and was due to leave us at the end of March. She decided 23rd of March would be [...]
Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins Collaborate to Identify Target Receptors for COVID-19
Medicines Discovery Catapult, Retrogenix and Peak Proteins announce a collaboration to advance understanding of the cellular mechanisms of infection by COVID-19. This collaboration aims to combine excellence in drug discovery and protein science with innovative cellular microarray technology to uncover any unknown cellular [...]
Dr Steve Harborne’s SMALP Talk Part 1
Listen to Part 1 of Dr Steve Harborne's talk about the SMALP'ed and detergent solubilised GPCRs - Introduction and Methods. This video has captions - if you would like to see these just click on "CC" on the control [...]
