Nigel Scrutton

Nigel Shaun Scrutton (born April 1964) FRSB FRSC is the Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), a post he has held since 2010, and Professor of Enzymology and Biophysical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Scrutton graduated from King's College London with a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1985 and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in

1988. He was a Benefactors' Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge where he completed his doctoral research on glutathione reductase and protein engineering supervised by Richard Perham. He was awarded a Doctor of Science (ScD) degree in 2003 by the University of Cambridge.

His research interests include enzyme biocatalysts, quantum biology, quantum tunnelling, photochemistry, enzyme design, directed evolution, enzyme mechanisms, enzyme structures and dynamics, synthetic biology, chemicals biosynthesis, nanoscale bioengineering, biocatalysis and metabolic engineering. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). He has supervised several PhD and postdoctoral research students.

Scrutton was awarded the Colworth Medal in 1999 from the Biochemical Society and the Enzyme Chemistry Award (The Charmian Medal) from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2002.

Scrutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).