Mel Euerby - 2007 Silver Jubilee Medal
Dr Mel Euerby, B.SC., Ph.D, C.Chem., FRSC., MRPharmS, is a Principal
Scientist within the Pharmaceutical and Analytical Research and Development
group of
AstraZeneca at Charnwood, Loughborough in the UK.
He
obtained his B.Sc. in Pharmacy 1st
Class with Honours (specialising in Pharmaceutical Chemistry) in 1979 from the
Victoria University of Manchester and his Ph. D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1983
from the same institute in the research area of -
Alkylthio & arylthio
removable activating groups in the synthesis of nitrogen heterocycles.
He
then spent four and half years (1984 -1988) at the School
of Pharmacy, University of London,
firstly as a post doctoral research fellow in the area of
in vitro / in vivo
multinuclear NMR spectroscopy of parasitic nematodes. In 1987 he was appointed to a full time
lectureship in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, during this time his
research interests included:
·
The elucidation of
metabolic/biochemical differences between parasitic helminths and their hosts
with a view to rational drug design.
·
The differentiation of optical isomers
by HPLC using novel pre-column derivatisation techniques
-
Structural elucidation of novel diterpenes
-
Synthesis of novel isoquinolines of pharmaceutical
activity
Mel took up his
position in Loughborough in 1988 and is now
a Principal Scientist within the Pharmaceutical and
Analytical R & D function at AstraZeneca Charnwood. He has special responsibility for evaluating
and implementing new chromatographic techniques for use within the Analytical
Development departments.
He was granted a Membership
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB in 1980, Membership of the Royal
Society of Chemistry in 1983 and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry
in 1995.
He has 93
publications (research papers, reviews and book chapters) in peer-reviewed
journals and 82 conference presentations in the area of separation science and
organic chemistry. He is
internationally renowned in the field of separation science and, as a
consequence, has been invited to deliver plenary lectures and workshops at many
International Symposia.
He has strong
links with many instrument and software manufacturers and stationary phase
companies within Europe and the USA. He is frequently requested to act as a consultant
/ expert by these companies in relation to product design specifications and is
used as a test site prior to product release.
Mel has been
able to maintain excellent links with many academic centres of excellence
(Leeds, Nottingham, West of England,
Strathclyde) – he has been responsible for the supervision of sixteen PhD
students, one post-doctoral fellow and twenty-seven MSc students. As a consequence of his academic activities,
he is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde
University and is a
member of the Steering Committee for the Pharmaceutical Analysis course. Each year he is a regular lecturer at the European Continuing
Education College
course in London.
He is a
referee for numerous scientific journals in the UK,
Europe and the USA
and was previously on the editorial board of the journal –
Journal of Separation Science.
He has
organised a number of well-attended workshops in the area of electrodriven
separations and is recognised throughout the area of separation science for his
pioneering work on the classification of reverse phase LC columns.
His current
main specialist areas of expertise include electrodriven separations,
stationary phase characterisations, computerised method development and
fundamental research into retention mechanisms of analytes in all aspects of
chromatography.