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Professor Chris Abell

November 11, 1957 - October 26, 2020

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Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedsci was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, and Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. A biological chemist, he was an undergraduate and postgraduate at Cambridge, before doing postdoctoral research at Brown University, USA. Chris was admitted as a Fellow of Christ's College in 1986. He led research teams in the Department of Chemistry pioneering the use of fragment-based approaches in drug discovery and developing microdroplets as an experimental platform. Chris cofounded Astex, Sphere Fluidics and Aqdot, and was a founding director of Cambridge Enterprise. From 2013-2015 Chris was the first Director of Postdoctoral Affairs at the University.

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2020-12-12 17:08:33 wrote:

My most heartfelt sympathsies to Katherine and Daniel. Such sad news. I have been very grateful to Chris and Katherine back in the days when I was a project student with the late Joe Spencer. We were very close to the Abell group and enjoyed their generosity in the lab. I worked down in the basement with some of Chris' students and Shankar's. Their kindness did not stop when I started my PhD with Joe. I learned a lot from Chris and his group. Very happy days they were indeed. Chris' premature passing is a loss for all of us: Cambridge, Chemistry, Science and, of course, his (extended) family. RIP

2020-12-12 17:08:33 wrote: My most heartfelt sympathsies to Katherine and Daniel. Such sad news. I have been very grateful to Chris and Katherine back in the days when I was a project student with the late Joe Spencer. We were very close to the Abell group and enjoyed their generosity in the lab. I worked down in the basement with some of Chris' students and Shankar's. Their kindness did not stop when I started my PhD with Joe. I learned a lot from Chris and his group. Very happy days they were indeed. Chris' premature passing is a loss for all of us: Cambridge, Chemistry, Science and, of course, his (extended) family. RIP

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