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Researchers at our department discover how proteins behave inside cells using AI, which has the potential to guide drug design.

We are sad to share the news that our colleague Martin Mays died on Sunday 23 June 2024.

A symposium is being held in memory of Professor Jim Staunton on Friday 20 September 2024 here in the department. Register here to attend.

Teachers from this department were recognised in three out of nine categories in the Student-Led Teaching Awards in June.

French scientist Dr Pascal Mayer shared in the 2022 Breakthrough Prize and the 2024 Canada Gairdner International Award with Professors Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman for the development of Next Generation DNA sequencing.

Unprecedented control over the inner workings of graphene.

We are delighted to announce that Robert Phipps, Chiara Giorio, Alex Forse and Bill Nolan have all received academic promotions, which were announced in the Cambridge University Reporter today.

Professor Gonçalo Bernardes has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 2024 Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry.

Professor Erwin Reisner has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 2024 Tilden Prize for Chemistry.

Professor Tuomas Knowles has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation to develop a platform to diagnose early-stage Parkinson’s Disease.

Dr Zenon Toprakcioglu studies protein misfolding diseases in the Knowles group. His latest research studies how lipids found naturally in our cells and in the brain’s grey matter could slow down the formation of protein aggregates.

The Forse group have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air

Sampurna Mitra is a first year PhD student in the Reisner group and a Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar. She describes her journey to a PhD in the department, her research into solar power and her goals for a more sustainable world

Srijit Seal, a final-year PhD student in the Bender group, is using artificial intelligence to make drug discovery faster and safer. He has developed models that use AI to solve complex problems in medicine faster than ever.