Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

 

Our research interests originate from a desire to understand and exploit biological systems using organic synthesis primarily. Listed below are areas of research that we are exploring; for more detailed information visit the Spring Group web pages.

We collaborate with many chemical companies and academic groups around the world. The scientific education of group members in organic synthesis is given a high priority; however, they are encouraged also to learn and perform new techniques relating to their projects with our industrial and academic collaborators. Every effort is made so that group members achieve their career ambitions, usually jobs in academia or the chemical industries.

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For more detailed information please visit the Spring Group research pages.

Teaching

If you are looking for the teaching material from my lecture courses, then please go to the Moodle website.

Publications

For a list of all our publications please visit the Spring Group publication page.

Publications

A platform for SpyCatcher conjugation to native antibodies
S Krajcovicova, T Wharton, CL Driscoll, TA King, MR Howarth, DR Spring
Chem Sci
(2025)
16
Development of D-box peptides to inhibit the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome
R Eapen, C Okoye, C Stubbs, M Schimpl, T Tischer, EJ Fisher, M Zacharopoulou, F Ferrer, D Barford, D Spring, C Lindon, C Phillips, LS Itzhaki
(2025)
Methods for the Generation of Single-Payload Antibody-Drug Conjugates
T Wharton, DR Spring
Chemmedchem
(2025)
20
Pseudomonas aeruginosa acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and structure-guided inversion of their substrate specificity
M Wang, P Medarametla, T Kronenberger, T Deingruber, P Brear, W Figueroa, P-M Ho, T Krueger, JC Pearce, A Poso, JG Wakefield, DR Spring, M Welch
Nature Communications
(2025)
16
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PfpI is a methylglyoxalase.
L Grimm, A Wijaya, I Askenasy, RR Nazeer, H Seki, PD Brear, W Figueroa, DR Spring, M Welch
Journal of Biological Chemistry
(2025)
301
The 2-methylcitrate cycle and the glyoxylate shunt in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are linked through enzymatic redundancy.
AJ Wijaya, SK Dolan, M Kohlstedt, L Gläser, P Brear, S Geddis, C Wittmann, DR Spring, M Welch
J Biol Chem
(2025)
301
Advances in the Release of Amide‐Containing Molecules
T Wharton, DR Spring
Chemistry – A European Journal
(2025)
31
Development of D-box peptides to inhibit the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome
R Eapen, C Okoye, C Stubbs, M Schimpl, T Tischer, E McCall, M Zacharopoulou, F Ferrer, D Barford, D Spring, C Lindon, C Phillips, LS Itzhaki
(2025)
Novel immunotherapeutics against LGR5 to target multiple cancer types (vol 16, pg 2233, 2024)
H-C Chen, N Mueller, K Stott, C Kapeni, E Rivers, CM Sauer, F Beke, SJ Walsh, N Ashman, L O'Brien, A Rafati Fard, A Ghodsinia, C Li, F Joud, O Giger, I Zlobec, I Olan, SJ Aitken, M Hoare, R Mair, E Serrao, JD Brenton, A Garcia-Gimenez, SE Richardson, B Huntly, DR Spring, M-O Skjoedt, K Skjødt, M de la Roche, M de la Roche
EMBO Molecular Medicine
(2024)
16
Selective Aurora A-TPX2 interaction inhibitors have in vivo efficacy as targeted anti-mitotic agents
SR Stockwell, DE Scott, G Fischer, E Guarino, TPC Rooney, T-S Feng, T Moschetti, R Srinivasan, E Alza, A Asteian, C Dagostin, A Alcaide, M Rocaboy, B Blaszczyk, A Higueruelo, X Wang, M Rossmann, TR Perrior, TL Blundell, DR Spring, G McKenzie, C Abell, J Skidmore, AR Venkitaraman, M Hyvönen
J Med Chem
(2024)
67

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