Melville Lab

Postgraduate Research in Chemistry at Cambridge Research Centres & Spin-Off Companies

Unilever Centre

The department includes the following centres:

• Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics
• Centre for Protein Engineering
• Centre for Atmospheric Sciences
• Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis
• Centre for Biological Chemistry
• Cancer Research UK PhD Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry
• NanoScience interdisciplinary PhD Doctoral Training Centre

• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, an independent institute attached to the department,
• BP Institute for Multiphase Flow,
• most other science departments in Cambridge and elsewhere, and many of the leading industrial chemical companies in the UK and abroad.

The following spinoff companies have been set up by members of the Department:

• Akubio (application of novel biosensors including virus detection)
• Astex (drug discovery using protein crystallography)
• Avidis (proteomics, protein folding, expression and design)
• Biotica Technology (combinatorial biosynthesis)
• Cambridge Combinatorial (biotech/pharmaceutical discovery company, now part of Millennium Pharmaceuticals UK)
• Cambridge Display Technology (light-emitting polymers)
• Polight Technologies (data storage and optical switching)
• Solexa (DNA sequencing) now part of Illumina