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Bill Hunter is Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Dundee. His major research emphasis is on studying actual and potential anti-microbial drug targets at the atomic level. He combines crystallography, and other biophysical techniques, with molecular modelling and computational chemistry, enzymology and biology to assess enzyme reaction mechanisms and the potential ‘druggability’ of specific enzyme active sites. He has also contributed to fundamental issues of protein-nucleic acid interactions and mammalian fatty acid biochemistry, and has made seminal contributions to the crystallography field including his contributions to developing multi-wavelength experiments with synchrotron radiation in order to obtain phase information, which is now a powerful component in the toolbox of the modern structural biologist.