Dr Ewen D D Calder
Chancellor's Fellow (Health and Life)

- School of Chemistry
- Institute for Regeneration and Repair
Contact details
- Email: ewen.calder@ed.ac.uk
- Web: ORCID
Address
- Street
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Joseph Black Building
University of Edinburgh
David Brewster Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FJ
- Street
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Institute for Regeneration and Repair (South Building)
Edinburgh BioQuarter
4-5 Little France Drive - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UU
Background
Ewen Calder received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow in 2015, working in the lab of Prof. Andrew Sutherland on new methodologies for the synthesis of nitrogen containing heterocyclic molecules. He carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford, splitting his time between the labs of Prof. Stuart Conway and Prof. Ester Hammond. There his work focused on the design, synthesis and testing of photo- and hypoxia-activated pro-drugs of clinical KDAC inhibitors. In 2019 he moved to the lab of Dr Louise Walport at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London, for further postdoctoral work where his focus was on developing and optimising an advanced form of mRNA display. In 2024 he moved to the University of Edinburgh to take up his current position as a Chancellor's Fellow (Health and Life) between the School of Chemistry and the Institute for Regeneration and Repair.
Research summary
mRNA display, peptide chemistry, unnatural amino acids, chemical tools, chemical biology, SUMO, Ubiquitin-like proteins