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Read more at: Reisner Open Day Lecture 16 March 12:15 & 2:45pm
Professor Erwin Reisner head shot

Reisner Open Day Lecture 16 March 12:15 & 2:45pm

Professor Erwin Reisner, courtesy Cambridge Festival

Professor Erwin Reisner will show how his group is developing ways to turn carbon dioxide, biomass and plastic waste into precious resources to underpin a solar-powered economy at his Open Day lectures in the Wolfson Theatre on Saturday 16 March.


Read more at: Three-year project culminates in new molecules for targeted imaging and drug delivery
Gonçalo Bernardes in the lab

Three-year project culminates in new molecules for targeted imaging and drug delivery

Gonçalo Bernardes, courtesy Nathan Pitt, ©University of Cambridge

As part of NOVA-MRI (Novel Applications in 19F Magnetic Resonance Imaging), scientists have designed new molecules that identify particular cells accurately, for example, identifying cancer cells instead of healthy cells.


Read more at: New study provides framework for optimising the design of antibody therapeutics

New study provides framework for optimising the design of antibody therapeutics

This breakthrough provides a basis for designing therapeutic antibodies, which could be used in new and improved therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases.


Read more at: New biomarker for Parkinson’s disease
David Klenerman in the lab

New biomarker for Parkinson’s disease

David Klenerman taken by Michael Webb ©University of Cambridge

Researchers in the Klenerman group have developed a new biomarker for Parkinson’s disease that paves the way to an early-diagnosis blood test and more effective treatment.


Read more at: Stable peptides for medical breakthroughs

Stable peptides for medical breakthroughs

Sona Krajkovicova for Chem@Cam taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Sona Krajcovicova, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Spring group, works on stabilising peptides for safe and stable drug delivery.


Read more at: Nano insights: exploring the quantum forces between water and carbon
Stephen Cox and Anna Bui taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Nano insights: exploring the quantum forces between water and carbon

Stephen Cox and Anna Bui in the botanical gardens

It has been one year since Dr Stephen Cox became a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Since then, he and his growing team have been busy figuring out the fundamentals of friction between individual atoms.


Read more at: Crossword Winter 2023 solutions and winner
Three travel mugs

Crossword Winter 2023 solutions and winner

University of Cambridge travel mugs courtesy Caroline Reid ©University of Cambridge

Try your hand at our chemistry cryptic crossword, check your answers, and congratulations to Evert Ditzel who won the prize draw.


Read more at: As easy as counting to ten – a new rule for catalysts’ design
Inert metal particles (red) with a single reactive metal particle (purple) catalyst reacting with a propane molecule (black).

As easy as counting to ten – a new rule for catalysts’ design

Dehydrogenation of propane (black) on a single-atom alloy (purple) which is diluted in an inert metal (red) made by Michail Stamatakis from Julia Schumann's figures courtesy University of Cambridge.

The ‘ten electron’ rule provides guidance for the design of single-atom alloy catalysts for targeted chemical reactions.


Read more at: National Inventors Hall of Fame honours DNA sequencing pioneers
Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman outside the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

National Inventors Hall of Fame honours DNA sequencing pioneers

Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman outside the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry taken by Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor Sir David Klenerman were honoured in the 2024 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees.


Read more at: Atmospheric science awarded grant to advance climate models
Luke and Maria

Atmospheric science awarded grant to advance climate models

Luke Abraham taken by Michael Webb and Maria Russo, both ©University of Cambridge

A climate science project, led by Dr Luke Abraham, has been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant.