Well done to Jianzhu “Cora” Wang (a PhD student in the Lusby group) who received a prize for her poster titled “Promoting Endo/Exo Diels-Alder Selectivity using a Simple Pd2L4 Catalyst” at the annual RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting held at Lancaster University on on Tuesday 18th Dec.
Proteus Director Prof Mark Bradley and Clinical Lead Prof Kev Dhaliwal, are to be awarded the Combined Royal Colleges Medal from the Royal Photographic Society for “an outstanding contribution to the advancement and/or application of medical photography or the wider field of medical imaging”.
Dr Jennifer Garden and Dr Amanda Jarvis were recently interviewd by the University of Edinburgh for their Staff Spotlight feature. Both talk about their experiences of being early career researchers and holders of Christina Miller Fellowships.
Research by Professor Polly Arnold is featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Chemical Science, and has also been chosen as the pick of the week by the journal.
Tests on patients with suspected infections found the approach could detect bacteria deep inside the lung where other technologies fail to reach. Experts say the technology will enable bedside decision making in critically ill patients, helping to avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics. It could also help doctors to better monitor patients’ illness, so that treatment can be stopped once infection has cleared, or if alternative therapies are needed.
Prof. Eleanor Campbell has been elected to the Academia Europaea, the European Union’s Academy of Humanities and Science.
A group from the SoC together with colleagues from St Andrews, Glasgow and Strathclyde universities visited Singapore to exchange ideas and build new partnerships.
Building on the outstanding successes of our previous tenure-track Chancellor’s Fellowship programmes and our world class research performance, the College of Science & Engineering is investing in a further cohort of 10 next generation research innovation leaders of the highest quality with a particular focus on:
Research by the Michel group and Interactive Scientific Limited has created new virtual reality software that could enhance drug design.
The technique uses molecular simulation software developed by the Michel group, in conjunction with visualisation using Interactive Scientific Limited's Nano Simbox. Combining the two pieces of software allows researchers to better visualise and understand the complex structures of proteins. This, in turn, could lead to a reduction in the time and money required to bring a new drug to market.
Congratulations to Giulia Novelli, a 1st year PhD student in the Parsons group, who has been awarded a poster prize in the IUCr Journals Applied Crystallography category at the European Crystallographic Meeting in Oviedo last week for her poster "Carbon Molecules in Space: a Thermal Equation of State Study of Solid Hexamethylenetetramine."
