Ben’s group’s research centres on the chemical understanding and exploitation of biomolecular function, with an emphasis on carbohydrates and proteins.
In particular, their interests encompass synthesis and methodology; target biomolecule synthesis; inhibitor/probe/substrate design; biocatalysis; enzyme and biomolecule mechanism; biosynthetic pathway determination; protein engineering; drug delivery; molecular biology; structural biology; cell biology; glycobiology; molecular imaging and in vivo biology.