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Team ICE test triathlon skills for WaterAid

ICE group members did the Triathlon to support WaterAid

Members of Professor Angelos Michaelides’ ICE group once again swam, ran and bicycled in support of WaterAid at the Castle Howard Triathlon in July. 


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Professor Mary McPartlin 1932 - 2022

Profess Mary McPartlin, who passed away in July, enjoyed solving difficult problems

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Mary McPartlin at the age of 89.


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Supercharging the electric revolution

Professor Dame Clare Grey, who co-founded Nyobolt, courtesy University of Cambridge

In July 2022 Chemistry spin-out Nyobolt announced the initial close of £50 million funding in its Series B round which will enable it to enter a stage of manufacturing at scale.


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Artificial Intelligence ‘IcePic’ outperforms humans in predicting ice crystal formation

Different molecular structuress fed into the IcePic deep learning AI, The ICE Group

Three scientists signed their names on a research paper but there was a secret fourth member: IcePic (Ice Pictures), a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) with a unique job: deciphering pictures of ice crystal formation.


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A chemist’s guide to metal-organic architecture

Professor Nitschke and group members were productive over lockdown

Lockdown was a time for making banana bread, exercising with Joe Wicks or starting a new hobby -- unless you were in the Nitschke lab, where researchers used the time to compile a handbook of metal-organic capsules.


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Naming ceremony honours Dr Hamied

Dr Yusuf Hamied and University of Cambridge Vice-Chacellor Stephen J. Toope at the renaming ceremony

A special ceremony was held on the 7th of July to celebrate the naming of the Department, and to thank Dr Yusuf Hamied and his wife Farida for their generous support.


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New “chemical antibody” provides insight into origins of Parkinson’s disease

Dr Margarida Dias Rodrigues working in the lab

Researchers have designed a new ‘chemical antibody’ that will help them understand the origins of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.


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New approach topples major barrier to commercialisation of organic flow batteries

Solar panel close up Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Harvard have developed a method to extend the lifetime of organic aqueous flow batteries, improving their commercial viability to safely and cheaply store energy from renewable sources.


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'Masked' cancer-killing drugs avoid harming healthy cells

First author Dr Lavinia Dunsmore in Cambridge

Researchers here have found a way to avoid the toxicity of some plant-derived cancer-killing drugs by 'masking' their toxicity until they reach their targets, potentially leading to more effective cancer therapies.


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Need high-volume 3D imaging? Just Zomp it!

Zomp co-founder Professor Steven Lee, courtesy University of Cambridge.

Professor of Biophysical Chemistry Steven Lee believes that one day ‘to Zomp’ will mean to carry out high-volume, three-dimensional imaging of individual cells.


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Five scientists promoted to professor

A long way up - the Chemistry library ceiling, Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

Professors Gonçalo Bernardes, Steven Lee, Rosana Collepardo, Robert Jack, and Robert Phipps have all been promoted to professorships.


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Tomi Akingbade curates our twitter account

Credit to Tomi Akingbade

PhD student Oluwatomi Akingbade, a member of Professor Sir David Klenerman's lab, took over our twitter account @ChemCambridge on the 16th June 2022.


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Innovate UK awards £200k to support development of low-cost rapid diagnostic tests

Dr Saif Ahmad (left), Chief Scientific and Medical Officer at 52 North Health with Dr Pietro Sormanni, Group Leader at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, credit to 52 North Health

Innovate UK has awarded £200k for a collaboration between med-tech company 52 North Health and a research group in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge to develop new diagnostic tests for cancer and other diseases.


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Frenkel awarded Lorentz Medal

Courtesy Department of Chemistry photography

Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS has been awarded the Lorentz Medal for his pioneering use of computer simulations.


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Professor Clare Grey appointed Dame Commander

Nathan Pitt ©University of Cambridge

In the Queen’s Birthday Honours Professor Clare Grey has been appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to science.