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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

Expeditious Total Synthesis of Hemiasterlin through a Convergent Multicomponent Strategy and Its Use in Targeted Cancer Therapeutics
J Charoenpattarapreeda, SJ Walsh, JS Carroll, DR Spring
– Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2020)
59,
23045
Epidemiological insights from a large-scale investigation of intestinal helminths in Medieval Europe
PG Flammer, H Ryan, SG Preston, S Warren, R Přichystalová, R Weiss, V Palmowski, S Boschert, K Fellgiebel, I Jasch-Boley, M-S Kairies, E Rümmele, D Rieger, B Schmid, B Reeves, R Nicholson, L Loe, C Guy, T Waldron, J Macháček, J Wahl, M Pollard, G Larson, AL Smith
– PLoS Negl Trop Dis
(2020)
14,
e0008600
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 Biosciences (IJMS)
(2020)
21,
E2490
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
– Journal of chemical information and modeling
(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
– Chem Commun (Camb)
(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
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Research Group

Research Interest Groups

Telephone number

01223 336498

Email address

spring@ch.cam.ac.uk