Professor Graham Ladds

1. Shaw, W.M., Yamauchi, H., Mead, J., Gowers, G.F., Oling, D., Larsson, N., Wigglesworth, M.*, Ladds, G.* and Ellis, T.* (2019) Engineering a model cell for rational tuning of GPCR signalling Cell pii: S0092-8674(19)30205-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.023.

2. Bridge, L., Mead, J., Frattini, E., Winfield, I., and Ladds, G.(2018) Modelling and simulation of biased agonism dynamics at a G protein-coupled receptor. J. Theoretical. Biol.7: 44-65.

3. Weston, C., Winfield, I., Harris, M., Hodgson, R., Shah, A., Dowell, S.J., Moarec, J-C, Woodlock, D.A., Reynolds, C.A., Poyner, D.R., Watkins, H.A. and Ladds, G. (2016) RAMP-directed G protein signaling specificity for the calcitonin gene-related peptide family of receptors. J. Biol. Chem.91: 21925 .

 4. Knight, A., Hemmings, J.L., Frenguelli, B.G., Dowell, S.J., Lochner, M. and Ladds, G. (2016) Discovery of Novel Adenosine Receptor Agonists that Exhibit Subtype Selectivity. J. Med Chem. 59: 947.

5. Weston, C., Li, J., Li, N., Barkan, G., Richards, G.O., Roberts, D., Skerry, T.M., Poyner, D., Pardamwar, M., Reynolds, C.A., Dowell, S., Willars, G. and Ladds, G. (2015) Modulation of glucagon receptor pharmacology by RAMP2. J. Biol. Chem. 290: 23009.

Investigator Biography

Graham studied Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham before completing a PhD in yeast pheromone signalling with John Davey at Warwick. He continued to work at Warwick as a post-doc studying pro-hormone convertases before securing a 5-year independent fellowship funded through the NHS. This project enabled him to return to his interest of GPCRs. He was appointed a lecturer at Warwick in 2006. In 2015 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Pharmacology Department, the University of Cambridge. He is a full member of the British Pharmacology Society and regularly attends meetings both in the UK and Australia. He has a long-standing collaboration with Dr Simon Dowell at GlaxoSmithKline. His group is interested in RAMP-mediated signalling bias of family B GPCRs.