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Sir David Alan Hopwood FRS (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist.
Professor David Hopwood. Emeritus Fellow Fellow of the Royal Society. David helps to promote discoveries from his previous group and from other colleagues in the natural product field at the John Innes Centre and around the world.
Streptomyces bacteria are globally important industrial microbes, but 60 years ago, our understanding of what made them tick was primitive in the extreme. That this has changed is due in no small part to the work of one man, Professor Sir David Hopwood.
David HOPWOOD, Emeritus Fellow | Cited by 29,005 | of John Innes Centre, Norwich | Read 297 publications | Contact David HOPWOOD
Professor Sir David Hopwood is a pioneering microbiologist, geneticist and researcher into the biology of streptomycetes, the bacteria that produce the majority of antibiotics in clinical use around the world today.
Aug 18, 2023 · Find out more about Sir David Hopwood’s career in this interview and his short biography, and more about his research in Streptomycetes genetics in the series ‘Microbial Genomics: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’, part I, part II and part III.
On Friday 14 September 1984, Professor David Hopwood announced to the world that his team at the John Innes Institute had produced the world’s first hybrid antibiotic by genetic engineering. David’s lab, in collaboration with a Japanese research group, had produced the antibiotic mederrhodin A.
