Frank von Delft is Professor for Structural Chemical Biology at University of Oxford, where he heads the Protein Crystallography group of the Centre for Medicines Discovery, and previously of the Structural Genomics Consortium. He is also Principal Beamline Scientist at Diamond Light Source, where he leads beamline I04-1 and the XChem facility for crystallographic fragment screening. His focus is to make Fragment discovery and progression accessible and routine for both academic and industrial users. Alongside his role in READDi AViDD Center, he is also a Project and Core Lead of the ASAP AViDD Center.
Frank received his undergraduate degree from the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa), and gained his PhD in protein crystallography under Tom Blundell at Cambridge (UK). He has also worked as a postdoc in San Diego (academically at Scripps in the JCSG, industrially at Syrrx in its pre-Takeda days). He is a visiting professor at the Biochemistry Department of the University of Johannesburg.