Rebecca Goss

Rebecca Jane Miriam Goss is a British organic chemist and professor at the University of St. Andrews recognized for her contributions to discovering and engineering biosynthesis of natural products, particularly anti-infectives, through the integration of synthetic biology and chemistry. Among other achievements and awards, Goss won the 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal.

Early life and education Goss completed undergraduate studies in chemistry at University of Durham in 1997.

Goss joined the University of Cambridge in 2000 to study the chemistry and molecular biology of polyketide biosynthesis in the research group of Professors Jim Staunton (FRS) and Peter Leadlay (FRS). She held a one-year teaching fellowship at the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham between 2002 and 2003 before obtaining a lectureship at the School of Biological and Chemical Science, University of Exeter in 2003.

Goss is on the advisory board for the peer-reviewed journals Chemical Communications and Natural Product Reports.

Awards

2013 Royal Society of Chemistry Natural Product Report Lectureship Award 2011 UK's under 40 Organic Chemistry delegate for EuCheM’s Young Investigators Workshop 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry - Meldola prize