Richard Sykes (biochemist)

Richard Sykes ( born 1942 in Yorkshire, England), the son of a carpenter, is a British scientist.

Life and work

Sykes led the most important research for products of Glaxo. He attended night school and earned two doctorates, one in a microbiology at Bristol University. Than a chemist at the University of London and In 1972, he went first to Glaxo. Five years later, he left Glaxo and worked at the U.S. rival Squibb until he finally in 1986 again returned to Glaxo. He worked as a director of the company until 1993., When he was 60 years old in 2002, he left, now called GlaxoSmithKline company and went to Imperial College.

In the 1970s he studied with Mark H. Richmond antibiotic resistance of bacteria and classified the case for β -lactamases next course.