Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."

Applications are invited for a four-year PhD programme based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and the new AstraZeneca Global Research and Development Centre at Cambridge.

 Is the ozone hole healing? Are we safe from harmful UV rays?

Over 90 guests attended the opening ceremony of the Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis on 12 September.

The Centre for Molecular Informatics in the Department of Chemistry will host a Data in Drug Discovery symposium on 23 September in the Unilever Lecture Theatre.

A Symposium celebrating the research career of Professor Jeremy Sanders will be held in the Chemistry Department on 4th September.

The Chemistry Department will host a Call My Bluff wine tasting as part of the Cambridge University Alumni Festival on Friday 25th September.

An interdisciplinary research team which includes Dr Steven Lee has been awarded an £850 thousand Allen Distinguished Investigator (ADI) grant for its project “Resolving white matter dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease with novel biosensors.” 

The Royal Society of Chemistry is sponsoring the annual Joliot Curie Conference at Murray Edwards College on 16-17 September.

120 fifteen-year-olds from schools across the UK recently took over the department's teaching lab to conduct university level experiments.

A Department of Chemistry spin-out which developed a ground-breaking method for drug discovery showcased its work last week in Parliament, as part of a national campaign celebrating the value of scientific research

Andrew Marsden, CEO of Immaterial and 3rd year PhD student in Professor Jane Clarke’s Group in the Department of Chemistry, has won the 1st prize at the RSC Emerging Technologies Competition. 

David Klenerman has won ERC funding.