Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Dr Pietro Sormanni have been named among this year’s recipients of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Research and Innovation Prizes.
Our postgraduate representatives, Ioana Băltărețu (left) and Dorothea Böken (right), share their thoughts about the role and their vision for postgraduate life and wellbeing in the Department.
The Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce and warmly congratulate two distinguished academics on their promotions: Rosana Collepardo to Professor (Grade 12) and Alex Thom to Professor (Grade 11).
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A team of chemists at the University of Cambridge has developed a powerful new method for adding single carbon atoms to molecules – offering a one-step approach that could accelerate drug discovery and the design of complex chemical products.
The Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry was delighted to hear and share the news that three of its former PhD students - Professors Alessio Ciulli, Jonathan Clayden and Dek Woolfson - have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society(FRS).
In a recent talk hosted by the Sustainability Committee and the Materials RIG Seminar series, Dr Claire Barlow explored the complexities of recycling, offering insights into its limitations and the broader context of sustainable materials use.
On 24 April, the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at Cambridge hosted a delegation from the University of Trieste (Italy) to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two institutions.
On 4 April 2025, as part of the Novo Nordisk Prize 2024, Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian and Prof. David Klenerman hosted the “Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology” Symposium at the Yusuf Hamied Dept. of Chemistry.
