Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor David Spring

Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology / EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow

 

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

Photoredox C(2)-Arylation of Indole- and Tryptophan-Containing Biomolecules
BM da S Santos, FG Finelli, DR Spring
Org Lett
(2024)
26
(doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c01019)
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
(2024)
(doi: 10.1101/2024.04.30.590460)
Unlocking Amides: A General Method for the Self-Immolative Release of Amide-Containing Molecules
T Wharton, F Crawshay-Williams, T Schober, RA Floto, DR Spring
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2024)
63
(doi: 10.1002/anie.202402267)
Unlocking Amides: A General Method for the Self‐Immolative Release of Amide‐Containing Molecules
T Wharton, F Crawshay‐Williams, T Schober, RA Floto, DR Spring
Angewandte Chemie
(2024)
136
(doi: 10.1002/ange.202402267)
CK2 Inhibitors Targeting Inside and Outside the Catalytic Box
S Day-Riley, RM West, PD Brear, M Hyvönen, DR Spring
Kinases and Phosphatases
(2024)
2
(doi: 10.3390/kinasesphosphatases2020007)
Site-selective peptide functionalisation mediated via vinyl-triazine linchpins
JD Sydenham, H Seki, S Krajcovicova, L Zeng, T Schober, T Deingruber, DR Spring
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2024)
60
(doi: 10.1039/d3cc05213c)
Red-light modulated ortho-chloro azobenzene photoswitch for peptide stapling via aromatic substitution
M Kapun, FJ Pérez-Areales, N Ashman, PJE Rowling, T Schober, E Fowler, LS Itzhaki, DR Spring
RSC Chemical Biology
(2024)
5
(doi: 10.1039/d3cb00176h)
A recombinant approach for stapled peptide discovery yields inhibitors of the RAD51 recombinase.
T Pantelejevs, P Zuazua-Villar, O Koczy, AJ Counsell, SJ Walsh, NS Robertson, DR Spring, JA Downs, M Hyvönen
Chemical science
(2023)
14
(doi: 10.1039/d3sc03331g)
Red-light modulated ortho-chloro azobenzene photoswitch for peptide stapling via aromatic substitution
M Kapun, FJ Pérez-Areales, N Ashman, PJE Rowling, T Schober, E Fowler, LS Itzhaki, DR Spring
RSC Chem Biol
(2023)
5
(doi: 10.1039/d3cb00176h)
A cell-active cyclic peptide targeting the Nrf2/Keap1 protein-protein interaction
J Iegre, S Krajcovicova, A Gunnarsson, L Wissler, H Käck, A Luchniak, S Tångefjord, F Narjes, DR Spring
Chemical science
(2023)
14
(doi: 10.1039/d3sc04083f)

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01223 336498

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spring@ch.cam.ac.uk

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Trinity College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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CB2 1EW
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