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Winton Symposium on “Solar Energies”

The fifth annual Winton Symposium will be held 3 November at the Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of “Solar Energies – science of light harvesting.”


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Professor Sanders congratulates Nobel Laureates

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, winners of the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry. Photograph: Nobel Prize

Professor Jeremy Sanders congratulated his 'old friends', chemists Jean Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa on their Nobel prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.


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Shankar Balasubramanian profiled in Nature Methods

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"It's good to consider many ideas and reject most, even all of them, on thinking them through," says Professor Shankar Balasubramanian in a recent feature article in Nature Methods.  


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Researchers visit Kenya to study 12 million year old fossil

Dr Silvia Vignolini working with Dr Job Kibii and Ms. Cecila Kathenya at the National Museums in Kenya, courtesy Rox Middleton

Dr Silvia Vignolini and PhD student Rox Middleton have visited the National Museums in Kenya to study a Pollia fossil.


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University Postgraduate Open Day 2 November

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The department is taking part in the first University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open Day on 2 November.


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Researchers discover vital role of Parkinson's Disease protein

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Department of Chemistry researchers and their collaborators have identified important clues about what may be happening to patients when a protein associated with Parkinson's Disease malfunctions.


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Chemistry spin-out Fluidic Analytics raises £5.3 million

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Fluidic Analytics Limited, a company founded by Professor Tuomas Knowles in the department, has raised £5.3 million in Series B financing.


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Researchers welcome young scientists from the UK and Japan

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Researchers from the Vignolini and Scherman groups hosted a workshop in July for students from schools in England and Japan.


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4-stranded DNA helix points to possible new cancer treatments

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Researchers in the Balasubramanian Group have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the progression of cancer, and suggest that it may be used to develop new targeted cancer therapies.


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Professor David Klenerman awarded Royal Society Research Professorship

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Professor David Klenerman of the Department of Chemistry has been awarded the Royal Society GSK Research Professorship.


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Nobel Laureate Roger Y Tsien 1952- 2016

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Rogert Tsien, a former Todd Professor in this Department and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, died 24 August 2016. 


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Chemistry to hold inaugural Chemistry Networks event

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Members of local industry can discover more about ways to work with the department at its first ever Chemistry Networks event in September.


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Graduate Admissions Open Day 21 October

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The Department of Chemistry's Open Day for prospective graduate student applicants will be held Friday 21 October. The deadline for graduate applications is 15 November.


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8th round of Returning Carers Scheme now open

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Applications are now open for the eighth round of the Returning Carers Scheme.


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Researchers discover that tiny protein mutations can have ‘dramatic impact’ on Parkinson’s disease

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Researchers in the department have discovered that specific mutations in the protein associated with Parkinson’s disease can make a dramatic difference to how the protein aggregates and therefore might alter how the condition develops.