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A story of chance and collaboration

Ahead of his 60th birthday, Dek N. Woolfson, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Bristol and a recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society, spoke to us about his career in science.

Dek N. Woolfson
Stephanie Greed
Comments & Opinion07 Jul 2025
Nature Reviews Chemistry

Volume: 9, P: 430-431
Engineering the morphology of a self-assembling protein fibre

Maxim G. Ryadnov
Derek N. Woolfson
Research20 Apr 2003
Nature Materials

Volume: 2, P: 329-332
Mini-proteins Trp the light fantastic

A new 20-residue peptide represents the smallest example to date of cooperatively folded tertiary structure. This achievement provides a new tool for elucidating protein conformational preferences. The mini-protein should serve as a fruitful platform for protein design.

Samuel H. Gellman
Derek N. Woolfson
News & Views01 Jun 2002
Nature Structural Biology

Volume: 9, P: 408-410