Darren Smith

Dr Smith is a Professor of Bacteriophage Biology within the Department of Applied Biology, Cellular and Molecular Sciences/Microbiology Group. He graduated from the University of Liverpool with a BSc in Microbiology in 2000. After a 1.5 years working for Applied Biosystems he spent the following 7.5 years completing both a PhD (2005) and Post-Doctoral research in the laboratory of Alan McCarthy, Heather Allison and Jon Saunders studying the biology of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages.

Prior to joining Northumbria University, Dr Smith completed his postdoctoral research in Professor Andrew Owen’s group, Liverpool HIV pharmacology group, University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Professor Steve Rannard’s group studying the impact of nanoformulation on highly active antiretroviral therapy drugs used in the treatment of HIV infection. These studies have included drug delivery, cellular accumulation and transcellular permeability models.