Christopher Cartmell, PhD

Christopher Cartmell, PhD, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. His research focuses on bioactive natural product discovery from extremophilic microbes leveraging microfluidic approaches for high-throughput screening.

Cartmell earned his undergraduate degree at Bangor University and initially trained in natural product synthesis before undertaking a doctoral program at the University of St Andrews. During this time, he developed novel approaches for natural product analogue generation, combining synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry with microbiology in an approach coined GenoChemetics. He was awarded a Mitacs Accelerate postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Prince Edward Island developing microfluidic approaches for in-situ cultivation and subsequent discovery of novel marine natural products. After working at Northeastern University's Antimicrobial Discovery Center, he moved to the University of Arizona.