Karen Bunting
Albumedix Ltd., UK
Biography
Karen Bunting is a Science Director at Albumedix, heading Molecular Biology and Fermentation within Research and Technical Development. Prior to the formation of Albumedix, she has joined Novozymes Biopharma UK in 2011 as a Senior Research Scientist and later as Science Manager. She has 20 years’ experience in Structural Biology and Protein Engineering. At Albumedix her primary research focus has been the design and engineering of albumin variants to optimize the circulatory half-life of therapeutic agents. Prior to joining Novozymes, she led a research team at the University of Nottingham focusing on structural analysis of protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, following on from Post-doctoral work at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. She has obtained BSc in Microbiology from Imperial College, London and PhD in Crystallography from Birkbeck College, London.