Staff
- Academic Staff
- Dr M.N. Ahmad
- Dr F. Aiouache
- Professor S.J. Allen
- Professor S.E.J. Bell
- Professor D.R. Boyd
- Professor R. Burch OBE
- Dr M.J. Cook
- Professor A.P. de Silva
- Dr A.P. Doherty
- Dr N.C. Fletcher
- Dr Q. Gan
- Dr A. Goguet
- Dr W. P.D.Goldring
- Professor K.J. Hale
- Professor C. Hardacre
- Professor P. Hu
- Dr M. Huang
- Dr. J. Jacquemin
- Professor S.L. James
- Dr M.C. Lagunas
- Dr I.C. Lane
- Dr W.F. Lin
- Professor T.R.A. Magee
- Professor J. Mann
- Dr A.C. Marr
- Dr P.C. Marr
- Professor J.J. McGarvey
- Professor A. Mills
- Dr M. Mirzaeian
- Dr M.J. Muldoon
- Dr P. Nancarrow
- Dr P. Nockemann
- Professor E.V. Rebrov
- Dr D.W. Rooney
- Professor K.R. Seddon
- Dr G.N. Sheldrake
- Dr P.J. Stevenson
- Dr K. Tchabanenko
- Dr J. Thompson
- Dr J.S. Vyle
- Dr G.M. Walker
- Dr P.J. Walsh
- All Staff
Professor Karl J. Hale
Professor K.J. Hale
BSc (University of London), 1982
PhD (University of London), 1985
Director of Research, SynBIOC,
Chair of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Tel: + 44 (0) 28 9097 5525
Fax: + 44 (0) 28 9097 4687
E-mail: k.j.hale@qub.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Karl J. Hale obtained his Ph.D in Synthetic Carbohydrate Chemistry from King’s College London in 1985 (Supervisors: Professors Leslie Hough and Anthony Richardson).
He then went on to do 4 years of postdoctoral research in natural product total synthesis in the laboratory of Professor Amos B. Smith III at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1989, he was appointed to a Senior Scientist position within the Medicinal Chemistry Division of F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Nutley, New Jersey, USA, at that time led by the dynamic medicinal chemist, Dr Manfred Weigele. One year later, in 1990, he returned to the UK to take up a Lectureship in Organic Chemistry at UCL, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1995 and full Professor of Chemistry in January 1998.
Whilst at UCL, with the very able help of Dr Soraya Manaviazar, Professor Hale set up the UCL Centre for Chemical Genomics. In July 2007, Professor Hale took up the new Chair in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB) within the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. At the same time he was also appointed to the newly established QUB Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology.
In addition to his teaching, research and managerial duties within Queen’s, Professor Hale serves as one of the Associate Editors of the high-profile American Chemical Society journal Organic Letters which has now emerged as the leading communications journal for publishing top-class synthetic organic chemistry research. He is efficiently assisted in his Editorial duties by his long-time organic chemistry collaborator and colleague, Dr Soraya Manaviazar.
