Congratulations to Gary Tang from the Campopiano group on publishing his first paper in none other than the high-impact Journal of Dental Reesearch.
The paper is titled "Porphyromonas gingivalis Sphingolipid Synthesis Limits the Host Inflammatory Response."
Research by Dr Olof Johansson which has recently been published in Nature Chemistry has potential to boost the storage capacities and processing speeds of hard drives.
The group's research suggests single-molecule magnets could be used to store data, with lasers used to both store and access the data. This process could allow data to be processed and accessed up to 100 times faster than with current technologies.
Prof. Scott Cockroft has been selected as this month's reviewer of the month for Nature's Communications Chemistry.
Each month we like to publicly acknowledge an outstanding reviewer for their advice. We look to thank reviewers who offered constructive, fair-minded, insightful remarks which we feel were of exceptional value to the authors and indeed the editors.
Professor Knox was a remarkable man who obtained a BSc (1st class hons) in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1949 and a PhD from Cambridge University. He returned to a Lectureship at Edinburgh in 1953 and remained with us until his retirement.
Congratulations to our 5 international stars who have all been awarded prestigious, competitive RSC Researcher Mobility Grants to spend time in collaborating labs around the world.
Congratulations to Yael Ben-Tal and Harvey Dale, both from the Lloyd-Jones group, who have been awarded 2020 Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (BMCS) International Travel Prizes! This is the second year in a row that our students have been awarded this prize.
A high level meeting, "Joint efforts against infectious diseases: HIV, TB, HCV", was co-organised by the European Commission, the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Russian Ministry of Health, along with two key EU funded Horizon 2020 projects, ARREST-TB and CARE, involved in joint research with Russia on infectious diseases – HIV, TB and HCV.
The Cancer Centre and the influential blogger Derek Lowe have both highlighted a recent Journal of Medicinal Chemistry paper from the Hulme group.
The paper, titled "Utilizing Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy To Study Intracellular Distribution of Label-Free Ponatinib in Live Cells", was published in December 2019.
Congratulations to Yael Ben-Tal from the Lloyd-Jones group who was awarded the first equal place poster prize at the annual RSC Perkin Meeting, held at St Andrews University on Thurs Jan 9th.
Her winning poster was on "Shedding light on the mechanism of photoredox cross-electrophile coupling by in-situ illumination NMR”
Dr Julien Michel is a co-recipient of the 9th Capps Green Zomaya Memorial Award in 2020. The Award recognises Julien’s work on molecular simulation methods for the optimisation of protein-ligand interactions, and in particular, for the application of this technology to the discovery of a novel class of potent cyclophilin inhibitors with potential application in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
