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Professor M James C Crabbe MA, BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRSC, FRGS, FRSA, FLS, FIMarEST
Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science
James
Crabbe is Professor of Biochemistry at the University, a Supernumerary
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, and Visiting Professor at
the University of Reading, and at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai
in China. His research, spanning biomedical and environmental sciences,
has resulted in over 135 publications in refereed International
journals, 21 books and major book chapters, 14 items of commercial
software, and numerous invitations as Plenary speaker at International
conferences. In 2006 he won the 6th Aviva/Earthwatch International
Award for Climate Change Research. Since 2005 he has been an Expert
Reviewer for the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His links with Industry
and consultancies have resulted in many successful projects, including
prize-winning commercial software in molecular modelling. He is Editor
of the journal Computational Biology and Chemistry, and on the
editorial boards of five other journals. He is a Governor of Dunstable
College Corporation, Vice-Chairman of the East of England Engineering,
Science & Technology Association, Chairman of Trustee Directors of
the Charity for Access Ability and Communications Technology (AACT), a
member of the College of Experts of the MRC, a member of the Advisory
Board of the Coral Reef Research Unit at the University of Essex, and a
former member of the Peer Review College of the EPSRC. He is currently
on the Executive Committee of the UK Deans of Science, a member of the
Council of University Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities,
has been a member of the Council of the Biochemical Society, was one of
the first Academic Auditors with the QAA, and a member of the Research
Boards of the EU and of the Big Lottery Fund. He has supervised 16
completed PhD students, and 11 Postdoctoral Fellows, on his own
research grants. He is a SCUBA dive instructor level 1, and has made
several classical recordings, one of which won an award, and has worked
in BBC TV and Radio, and on the Science and Art programme of the
Wellcome Trust.
2007: $21,000 from Earthwatch (USA) for
coral reef studies related to conservation in Belize; $5,000 from the
Oak Foundation for capacity building for sustainable development in
Belize.
2006: $35,000 from Earthwatch (USA) for
studies on coral growth rates and recruitment in relation to climatic
and environmental effects.
2005: The
Samuel Riker Fellowship Award, for studies on coral growth,
recruitment, and climate change, $30,000 from Earthwatch (USA) for
studies on coral growth rates and recruitment in relation to climatic
and environmental effects.
2004: $30,000
from Earthwatch (USA) for studies on coral growth rates and recruitment
in relation to climatic and environmental effects; £5,000 from the
Wellcome Trust for a SciArt project: ‘Seeing clearly – light sculpture
and the eye’; £1,534 from Vodafone plc for Communications Technology and Conservation.
2003: £235,000 (joint) from the
Wellcome Trust for three years to study ‘A genomics and proteomics
approach to understanding the effect of protein glycation and advanced
glycation endproduct (AGE) formation and fermentation by human colonic
bacteria and the implications for lower gut health’; $23,000 from
Earthwatch (USA) for studies on coral growth rates and recruitment,
£550 from the BBSRC for a postgraduate communication skills course.
2002: £259,228
from the Wellcome Trust (joint) for three years to study ‘Glycation of
human serum albumin, haemoglobin and lens crystallins and capsule
collagen by methylglyoxal and other a-oxoaldehydes in vivo: site,
extent and structural and functional consequences of modification’;
£268,755 for a real-time confocal microscope and associated
micromanipulator of which BBSRC contributes £139,339, Leica £115,036
and the RETF £14,380, for “Visualisation by confocal microscopy of
protein location and interactions within living cells”; £97,730 (joint)
from the British Heart Foundation for two years to study quantification
of glycated lipoproteins in diabetic subjects; $30,000 from Earthwatch
(USA) for studies on coral growth rates and recruitment, £9,085 from
the Royal Society for structural studies of MIP; £7,000 from RETF to
study protein crystallography.
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