DR CHARLIE HIND

WISC Vice Chair (Industry)

Senior Project Team Leader/Senior Scientist – UK Health Security Agency

 

Charlie is a senior scientist and senior project team leader at UKHSA (formerly Public Health England). She completed her PhD in 2012 under Mark Cragg at the University of Southampton, characterising a pro-survival protein which is upregulated in metastatic melanoma. She then left academia to join the Technology Development Group at PHE in 2013, where she now manages a team and leads several exciting projects. She is not a chemist by training! She has foggy memories of chemistry from her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry with Biological Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, but is now a microbiologist. Her current research is working with chemists from academia and SMEs to develop novel therapies, including supramolecular chemistry solutions, as antimicrobials. Her team welcomes non-microbiologists into the UKHSA labs, where they receive comprehensive microbiology training and test their therapies against UKHSAs extensive library of multidrug resistant bacteria and fungi.

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Outside of work, Charlie enjoys twisting herself in knots on aerial silks, travelling the world and gardening.