Steve Thomas

Graduating from Warwick with a Chemistry degree, Steve Thomas joined the NMR department of Merck’s Neuroscience Research Centre at Terlings Park in 1990. “The wealth of experience in Medicinal Chemistry support made me analytically bilingual; speaking both NMR and Mass Spec.” Closure of the site in 2006 led him to the Biotransformation and Drug Disposition group at GSK. “I have always loved puzzles and science,” Steve explains, “and structural identification is a straight combination of the two”. Having studied metabolic transformations his entire career, eventually, the lure of more challenging samples and close proximity to the development compounds that change people’s quality of life proved too strong.