Keith Fox

Keith Fox (born July 1956; currently 70 years old) is a British biochemist, author, and academic recognized for his research on nucleic acid structure and his active leadership in the science-and-religion dialogue. He studied Natural Sciences and earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge before joining the University of Southampton in 1987, where he served as Professor of Biochemistry (now Emeritus Professor). His scientific career has centered on the sequence-specific recognition of DNA by small molecules, oligonucleotides, and proteins, with significant contributions to the study of non-canonical DNA architectures such as triple helices (triplex DNA) and quadruplexes. In parallel with his laboratory work—and his longtime role as Senior Executive Editor of the journal Nucleic Acids Research—Fox is a prominent Christian thinker and licensed lay minister in the Church of England. He has served as Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge, chaired Christians in Science (CiS), edited the journal Science & Christian Belief, and co-authored works such as Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and "Playing God" (2021) addressing bioethics, genome editing, and evolutionary biology.