Louise Walport

Louise Walport is a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute and a Lecturer at Imperial College London. Her research interests are in chemical biology and the regulation of post-translational modifications. She has a particular interest in developing cyclic peptide-based chemical tools.
Louise obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Chris Schofield and Prof. Christina Redfield. She used a combination of biochemical and structural techniques to study the structure and function of ‘reader’ and ‘eraser’ proteins involved in epigenetics. Following further postdoctoral work in Oxford, she obtained a Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to work in Japan for two years in the laboratory of Hiroaki Suga, with a return year in Chris Schofield’s laboratory at the University of Oxford. In 2018, she established her independent group at the Francis Crick Institute in a joint appointment with the Chemistry Department at Imperial College London.