Raymond Dwek

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Professor Raymond Allen Dwek BSc DPhil DSc FRS (born 10 November 1941) was a scientist at the University of Oxford and founded its spin-off biotechnology company, Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. (acquired by Celltech in 2003).

He was educated at Carmel College, then the University of Manchester where he learned Chemistry (1960-64). He then went to Lincoln College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil in Physical Chemistry in 1966. He was a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and, until his retirement in 2006, headed both the Department of Biochemistry and the Oxford Glycobiology Institute. Professor Dwek is President of the Institute of Biology.

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  • Dwek, Raymond A. (1973). Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (N.M.R.) in Biochemistry: Applications to Enzyme Systems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-854614-9. 
  • Price, Nicholas C.; and Raymond A. Dwek (1974). Principles and Problems in Physical Chemistry for Biochemists. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-854129-5. 
  • Campbell, Iain D.; and Raymond A. Dwek (1984). Biological Spectroscopy. Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings. ISBN 0-8053-1847-X. 

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