Martine I. Abboud

Martine is a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, the University of Oxford. Her doctoral work focused on the use of a wide range of ligand- and protein-observed biophysical and biochemical methods to study hypoxic response and antimicrobial resistance. Her work provided novel information about substrate selectivity of dioxygenases, linked to pathology, and mechanistic insights into lactamases. Martine completed her undergraduate studies at the Lebanese American University, Lebanon, where she received the President's Award for academic excellence and leadership skills. In 2013, she came to St. John's College, Oxford, as Sir Hans Krebs Memorial Scholar, Biochemical Society. She has undertaken her doctoral research at Oxford under the supervision and guidance of professors Christopher Schofield and Timothy Claridge. She was awarded a Pfizer-sponsored prize and a Thesis Commendation from the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division, Oxford, for her doctoral work. In 2018, she was selected to represent the University of Oxford at the 68th Lindau-Nobel Laureates Meeting, received the first ever Eddy Fischer Lindau Fellowship from the Vallee Foundation, and was selected as a leading young scientist by Baden-Württemberg International. Her work to date has been presented at several international conferences and described in over 20 publications.