CCDC well groomed: an interview with Colin Groom, Executive Director, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, and Frank Allen, Emeritus Fellow

Dr. Colin Groom was appointed as executive director of the CCDC from 1 October 2008, following the retirement of Dr. Frank Allen. He was formerly head of Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery and Investigative Chemistry at UCB in Cambridge, UK. In an interview, Groom noted that during a Ph.D. one generates an empathy with a subject that stays with one forever. His was crystallography. So his new position as executive director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is really returning to his roots. His interest is in molecular interactions, be they drugs with proteins in cells, or small molecules with each other in crystals.