Dr Chiara Giorio has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Early Career Award in Environment, Sustainability & Energy for her role in the discovery of how systemic pesticides harm honeybees.  

The success of PhD student David Izuogu’s initiative to help African students apply for postgraduate programmes in Cambridge means more mentors are needed.

Professors Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Sir David Klenerman have been awarded the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize for their development of the technique that revolutionised DNA sequencing.

Researchers from this Department have developed a method to create a compostable plant-based plastic-like material that’s as robust as engineering plastics.

Professor Franklin Aigbirhio has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

An international team of researchers has confirmed through animal studies that a chemical compound found in the Indian Long Pepper can suppress the growth of glioblastoma, one of the least treatable types of brain cancer.

Congratulations to Professors Melinda Duer and Chris Hunter, who have each won advanced grants from the European Research Council, Europe's premier research funding body.

Research associate Dr Stephen J. Cox has received an award for Best Paper by an Emerging Investigator from The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Surabhi Agrawal founded The Bhagini Project to encourage other Indian women to pursue higher education.

Dr Peter Wothers will present a webinar on Wednesday the 14th of April at 6pm.

New research from the Knowles and Collepardo labs has implications for therapies against cancer and other diseases, and could even contribute to theories about the origin of life.

Fourth-year PhD student Fahmida Khan loves the Renaissance, that period of European history when philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences blossomed, and art was transformed through the application of new scientific knowledge.

Scientists here have identified the function of a 'mystery protein' that kills healthy brain cells of people with Parkinson's disease.

It is with sadness that we announced that Professor David Buckingham CBE FRS FAA has died at the age of 91, peacefully at home surrounded by members of his family.

As Professor of Chemical and Molecular Biology in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Professor Sophie Jackson's research involves protein folding and peptide aggregation at the interface of chemistry and biological science.