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

The multifaceted nature of antimicrobial peptides: current synthetic chemistry approaches and future directions.
BH Gan, J Gaynord, SM Rowe, T Deingruber, DR Spring
Chemical Society reviews
(2021)
50
Downfalls of Chemical Probes Acting at the Kinase ATP-Site: CK2 as a Case Study.
EL Atkinson, J Iegre, PD Brear, EA Zhabina, M Hyvönen, DR Spring
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
(2021)
26
A dual-enzyme cleavable linker for antibody-drug conjugates
JD Bargh, SJ Walsh, N Ashman, A Isidro-Llobet, JS Carroll, DR Spring
Chem Commun (Camb)
(2021)
57
The role of chemical synthesis in developing RiPP antibiotics.
SM Rowe, DR Spring
Chemical Society reviews
(2021)
50
Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents
J Dunne, E Biddulph, P Manix, T Gillard, H Whelton, S Teague, C Champness, LG Broderick, R Nicholson, P Blinkhorn, E Craig-Atkins, B Jervis, R Madgwick, T Hodos, LJE Cramp, RP Evershed
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
(2021)
13
The preservation of ancient DNA in archaeological fish bone
G Ferrari, A Cuevas, AT Gondek-Wyrozemska, R Ballantyne, O Kersten, AH Pálsdóttir, I van der Jagt, AK Hufthammer, I Ystgaard, S Wickler, GF Bigelow, J Harland, R Nicholson, D Orton, B Clavel, S Boessenkool, JH Barrett, B Star
Journal of Archaeological Science
(2021)
126
Peptides as a platform for targeted therapeutics for cancer: peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs)
BM Cooper, J Iegre, DH O' Donovan, M Ölwegård Halvarsson, DR Spring
Chemical Society reviews
(2021)
50
Chemical probes targeting the kinase CK2: A journey outside the catalytic box
J Iegre, EL Atkinson, PD Brear, BM Cooper, M Hyvönen, DR Spring
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2021)
19
Site-selective modification strategies in antibody-drug conjugates
SJ Walsh, JD Bargh, FM Dannheim, AR Hanby, H Seki, AJ Counsell, X Ou, E Fowler, N Ashman, Y Takada, A Isidro-Llobet, JS Parker, JS Carroll, DR Spring
Chem Soc Rev
(2020)
50
Photocatalytic methods for amino acid modification
TA King, J Mandrup Kandemir, SJ Walsh, DR Spring
Chemical Society reviews
(2020)
50

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