Professor Chris Abell has received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2020 Interdisciplinary Prize for his pioneering work on fragment-based drug discovery and microfluidic microdroplets.
We utterly reject the claim made in a now withdrawn Angewandte Chemie article that the drive to improve diversity and inclusion has a negative effect on standards.
Dr Giorio monitoring ozone flow to the fume cupboard.
Researchers in the Centre for Atmospheric Science here have been helping scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to test how ozone could speed up the cleaning of ambulances and potentially save lives.
Antibody designed to recognise pathogens of Alzheimer's disease
Courtesy Strittmatter Laboratory, Yale University
Researchers here have found a way to design an antibody that can identify the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells - a potential advance in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
Professor Tuomas Knowles in Cambridge before the coronavirus lockdown
Professor Tuomas Knowles and his colleagues are developing a new approach to help better understand the body’s defences against SARS-CoV-2, and ultimately support the development of reliable antibody tests and vaccines.
New hope for weight-loss drug without harmful side effects
Researchers here have developed a potential weight loss drug and shown in mice that it may also avoid the harmful side effects of traditional treatments.
Targeting oligomer dynamics provides hope for new Alzheimer’s therapies
Lead author Dr Thomas Michaels developed a maths model
Researchers have revealed for the first time the surprising behaviour of toxic oligomers in the amyloid aggregation process involved in Alzheimer’s and other diseases, thus opening up routes for new therapies against these dreaded killers.
Matt Bushen and NIck Bampos deliver PPE to Addenbrooke's, courtesy Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry has delivered safety glasses and gloves to Addenbrooke's Hospital to support local NHS staff in the battle against COVID-19.
Using visible light to trigger the union of feedstocks
Image of Matthew Gaunt: Department of Chemistry Photography
A new chemical transformation using visible light to trigger the union of readily available feedstocks has enabled researchers to produce complex tertiary alkylamines in a single step. This could streamline the synthesis of novel small molecules.
Although he hasn't been studying the virus itself, Professor Rod Jones has been investigating an unexpected positive consequence of the virus caused by movement restrictions imposed by the government during the coronavirus pandemic.
Researchers here who normally design antibodies for use against Alzheimer’s disease are now redirecting the same approach to develop antibodies against the coronavirus.
