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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

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

Adventures in drugging undruggable targets
DR Spring
– JOURNAL OF LABELLED COMPOUNDS & RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
(2020)
63,
362
Divergent Synthesis of Novel Cylindrocyclophanes that Inhibit Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
JJ Freudenreich, S Bartlett, NS Robertson, SL Kidd, S Forrest, HF Sore, WRJD Galloway, M Welch, DR Spring
– ChemMedChem
(2020)
15,
1289
Hydroxylated Rotenoids Selectively Inhibit the Proliferation of Prostate Cancer Cells.
DA Russell, HR Bridges, R Serreli, SL Kidd, N Mateu, TJ Osberger, HF Sore, J Hirst, DR Spring
– Journal of Natural Products
(2020)
83,
1829
Demonstration of the utility of DOS-derived fragment libraries for rapid hit derivatisation in a multidirectional fashion.
SL Kidd, E Fowler, T Reinhardt, T Compton, N Mateu, H Newman, D Bellini, R Talon, J McLoughlin, T Krojer, A Aimon, A Bradley, M Fairhead, P Brear, L Díaz-Sáez, K McAuley, HF Sore, A Madin, DH O'Donovan, KVM Huber, M Hyvönen, F von Delft, CG Dowson, DR Spring
– Chem Sci
(2020)
11,
10792
2-Aminopyridine Analogs Inhibit Both Enzymes of the Glyoxylate Shunt in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
AC McVey, S Bartlett, M Kajbaf, A Pellacani, V Gatta, P Tammela, DR Spring, M Welch
– International journal of molecular sciences
(2020)
21,
2490
Hotspots API: A Python Package for the Detection of Small Molecule Binding Hotspots and Application to Structure-Based Drug Design.
PR Curran, CJ Radoux, MD Smilova, RA Sykes, AP Higueruelo, AR Bradley, BD Marsden, DR Spring, TL Blundell, AR Leach, WR Pitt, JC Cole
– J. Chem. Inf. Model.
(2020)
60,
1911
Total synthesis and biological evaluation of simplified aplyronine analogues as synthetically tractable anticancer agents
TR Pettigrew, RJ Porter, SJ Walsh, MP Housden, NYS Lam, JS Carroll, JS Parker, DR Spring, I Paterson
– Chemical Communications
(2020)
56,
1529
Sulfatase-cleavable linkers for antibody-drug conjugates
JD Bargh, SJ Walsh, A Isidro-Llobet, S Omarjee, JS Carroll, DR Spring
– Chemical science
(2020)
11,
2375
Functionalized Double Strain-Promoted Stapled Peptides for Inhibiting the p53-MDM2 Interaction
K Sharma, AV Strizhak, E Fowler, W Xu, B Chappell, HF Sore, WRJD Galloway, MN Grayson, YH Lau, LS Itzhaki, DR Spring
– ACS omega
(2020)
5,
1157
An efficient, stereocontrolled and versatile synthetic route to bicyclic partially saturated privileged scaffolds.
HL Stewart, AR Hanby, TA King, AD Bond, TA Moss, HF Sore, DR Spring
– Chemical Communications
(2020)
56,
6818
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Research Group

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Telephone number

01223 336498

Email address

spring@ch.cam.ac.uk