PhD student Oluwatomi Akingbade founded the Black Women in Science Network when she was an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham in 2018.

Postdoctoral researchers hosted poster presentations alongside coffee and pastries to celebrate the IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast on 14 February.

Dr Peter Wothers gave a fascinating talk on pioneering science writer Jane Marcet at our annual alumni lecture on 11 February,

Mr R. Derek Finlay (Emmanuel 1952) has given another £2 million to promote further innovation in the Department’s Centre for Misfolding Diseases (CMD), located in our Chemistry of Health building.

Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ English wanted to connect with other women in neuroscience but couldn’t find quite the right organisation. So she started the Women in Neuroscience Network in the UK.

“We will be working to advance the performance of fast charging, long life batteries for automotive,” explains Dr Israel Temprano, who has received a grant as part of a collaboration to research ultra-fast charging batteries.

Professor Robert Phipps has been awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant for research into enantioselective radical chemistry.

Researchers at Balasubramanian Group spin-out Cambridge Epigenetix have found a new way to sequence genetic and epigenetic information in the same work flow, which could help detect diseases like cancer.

Professor Hanadi Sleiman spoke on her work on DNA nanostructures and how they can be applied to drug design and delivery at the 2023 Cambridge Energy Transition Lecture here in January.

Bernardes Group researcher Dr Yanira Méndez Gómez has won the Otto Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award.

A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other and may hold the key to understanding this most famous of liquids.

Cambridge Oncology, a new company co-founded by Professor Melinda Duer and James Harrison, CEO of Cycle Pharmaceuticals, is pioneering a new drug that combats cancer tumours by targeting their environment.

A group of students recently attended a lecture peppered with fun-filled experiments to illustrate the serious issue of how to combat climate change in an entertaining and informative way.

Researchers in the Bernardes group have discovered that a molecule from the long pepper plant could actively combat different variants of COVID-19.

Many life-saving drugs directly interact with DNA to treat diseases such as cancer, but scientists have struggled to detect how and why they work – until now.