Stephen Busby FRS[1][2] is a British biochemist, and professor at the University of Birmingham.
[3] His research is concerned with the molecular mechanisms controlling gene expression in bacteria, especially regulation of transcription initiation in Escherichia coli.
Stephen Busby started his career working for several years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris,[4] where he remained until moving to the University of Birmingham in 1983.
After obtaining his doctorate at Oxford, he worked in the laboratory of George Radda, in collaboration with Rex Richards, on nuclear magnetic resonance of metabolites.
[5] Subsequently his interest moved towards reguatory mechanisms and transcription in bacteria,[6] participating in making recommendations about transctiption initiation,[7] and developing new methods for studying recombinant protein production.