This week, the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry warmly welcomes Professors Deborah Longbottom and Stephen Jenkins as our new  Co-Heads of Department.

The Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Professors Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Sir David Klenerman, together with Dr Pascal Mayer (University of Strasbourg), have been awarded the 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of impactful, low-cost next-generation DNA sequencing methods.

Recent research has revealed a new way to manufacture nature-inspired structural colour continuously and at room temperature, opening the possibility of producing vibrant, never-fading colour on films kilometres long.

Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and the University of Basel have developed small molecules that could make cancer immunotherapies more effective against tumours that are typically difficult to treat.

Chemists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to remodel amines – important chemical structures found in many medicines and biologically active molecules – by changing the connections between their atoms.