The Horrocks Group are once again extremely grateful for a donation made by Dr. Jim Love to support their research into neurodegenerative diseases. His previous gift helped to fund a single-molecule microscope that is currently being used to look at protein "clumps" that are formed in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. His second gift will be used to continue this important work, and will allow Owen Kantelberg, a second year Ph.D.
Research carried out by Professor Colin Campbell's group, with collaborators in the University of Edinburgh's School of Biology, Jerusalem and Liege has recently been published online in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The paper is titled "Intracellular redox potential is correlated with miRNA expression in MCF7 cells under hypoxic conditions ".
Research carried out through a collaboration between Brown University, SLAC, and the Kirrander group in the School of Chemistry demonstrates how deep UV light can trigger ground state chemical reactions that can be tracked using ultrafast x-rays.
Congratulations to Dr Adam Kirrander, who has been selected as one of the Journal of Physical Chemistry's young scientists of the year for 2019.
Pictures of all those selected appear on the August edition of the journal.
Prof Colin Pulham and Dr Sumit Konar from the School of Chemistry recently collaborated with University College London and Eli Lilly and Company on a paper that has now been accepted in JACS. The paper details research that comnbined multiple methods to find the crystal structures of all 10 unsolvated polymorphs of galunisertib, which is currently undergoing trials as a cancer drug.
Dr Adam Kirrander and his team have published a paper in Nature Chemistry with collaborators at Brown University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The experiment exploits the brightness and high time resolution of the new x-ray free-electron laser, LCLS in California, to capture the vibrational motion of an excited molecule in detail.
Alex Elmi, from the Cockroft group, and Jianzhu Wang, from the Lusby group, both won best talk prizes at the annual Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Early Career meeting held last week at the University of Lincoln.
Congratulations to Alex and Jianzhou!
Euan Doidge is the winner of this year's Norma and Fraser Stoddart Prize.
Euan gave a talk at the award ceremony entitled "WEEE are Golden: metal recovery by solvent extraction" which covered his research experiences and his passion for teaching and science communication.
Stoddart Prize winners are expected not only to have demonstrated superior research accomplishments throughout their time at Edinburgh but they should also have contributed to the life of students within the School of Chemistry and beyond.
Congratualtions to Euan!
Research on air quality by a team including Prof. Mathew Heal has been highlighted in the Guardian. The research shows that death rates have fallen over the last four decades as a result of reduced pollutants in the atmosphere.
However, the study authors also point out that more needs to be done. Prof. Heal is quoted as saying “People have to make sacrifices sometimes to fit in with legislation and it is good to tell the public that some of those sacrifices are having a benefit.”
Congratulations to Prof. Polly Arnold who has been elected as a member of the Adacemia Europeaea.
