Ian Charles

Professor Ian Charles is the founding Director of the Quadram Institute, Norwich Research Park, UK. The Quadram Institute is a partnership between Quadram Institute Bioscience, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of East Anglia and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The Quadram's mission is to deliver healthier lives through innovation in gut health, microbiology and food and its vision is to understand how food and microbes interact to promote health and prevent disease. Professor Charles' research interests include infectious disease and the microbiome as its affect on health and well-being.

Past positions include: Director of ithree institute in Sydney, Australia, and visiting Professor at University of Technology, Sydney; Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Sheffield and University College London, UK; Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Arrow Therapeutics; Head of Molecular Pharmacology at Glaxo Wellcome; and Senior Research Scientist at Wellcome Research Laboratories

Education

 * 1977 – 1980, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Zoology
 * 1981 – 1985, University of Leicester, UK - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry

Talks and interviews

 * 2015, Keynote Speaker at the 10th Invest in ME International ME Conference on "Solving ME: What a Research Park Has to Offer in Resolving a Chronic Disease" - DVD available
 * 2017, Opening Keynote Speaker at the 12th Invest in ME International ME Conference on "A Centre of Excellence for ME" - DVD available

Online presence

 * LinkedIn
 * Quadram Institute - Ian Charles Bio page

Learn more

 * 2015, "Leading scientist to develop new Centre for Food and Health and to head the Institute of Food Research"