David R. Spring is currently a Professor at the University of Cambridge in the Chemistry Department and a Fellow of Trinity College. He gained his BA (Hons.) and MA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He then moved to Harvard University to work with Stuart Schreiber as a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge with a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship, an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, and an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship.  His research program is focused on the use of chemistry to explore biology.