Shamus Burns

After my first degree in Chemistry at Royal Holloway College I was encouraged by my Final Year Research Project supervisor, Les Suttcliffe, to pursue research using NMR. After a two year Research Assistant post using NMR to study cardiac carbohydrate metabolism ex-vivo, I began a PhD in Biochemistry at The London Hospital Medical College (now Queen Mary's School of Medicine). I continued to do Post-Doctoral research in liver biochemistry at Queen Mary’s, being appointed as a Lecturer in the new Medical School in 2000. My work there revealed a novel mechanism by which the liver could regulate blood glucose, and much of my subsequent work is related to biochemical mechanisms of glycemic homoestasis. More recently my focus is on polyphosphate dependent glucokinases and potential mechanisms of phosphorylation substrate specificity that that all hexokinases and glucokinases exhibit. I moved to the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences (now Biological and Geographical Sciences) at Huddersfield in the Summer of 2004, taking on significant new teaching duties as a senior Lecturer, and appointed to Subject Leader (Biochemical sciences) in 2014. 

I am an active member of the Biochemical Society (the Local Ambassador at Huddersfield and a previous member of Council (2011) and I paritcipate in promoting the molecular biosciences in local Schools. 

• Biochemistry
• Regulation of metabolism
• NMR / MRS in vivo and in vitro to investigate mechanisms of metabolic control
• Fetal programming of adult disease
• Glucokinase and hexokinase biochemistry

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