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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

C(sp3)–H arylation to construct all-syn cyclobutane-based heterobicyclic systems: a novel fragment collection
TJ Osberger, SL Kidd, TA King, DR Spring
– Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2020)
56,
7423
Diarylethene moiety as an enthalpy-entropy switch: photoisomerizable stapled peptides for modulating p53/MDM2 interaction.
AV Strizhak, O Babii, S Afonin, I Bakanovich, T Pantelejevs, W Xu, E Fowler, R Eapen, K Sharma, MO Platonov, VV Hurmach, L Itzhaki, M Hyvönen, AS Ulrich, DR Spring, IV Komarov
– Org Biomol Chem
(2020)
18,
5359
Fsp 3 -rich and diverse fragments inspired by natural products as a collection to enhance fragment-based drug discovery
AR Hanby, NS Troelsen, TJ Osberger, SL Kidd, KT Mortensen, DR Spring
– Chemical Communications
(2020)
56,
2280
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 (Cambridge, England)
(2020)
56,
6818
Efficient and selective antibody modification with functionalised divinyltriazines.
AJ Counsell, SJ Walsh, NS Robertson, HF Sore, DR Spring
– Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2020)
18,
4739
General dual functionalisation of biomacromolecules via a cysteine bridging strategy
SJ Walsh, J Iegre, H Seki, JD Bargh, HF Sore, JS Parker, JS Carroll, DR Spring
– Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2020)
18,
4224
Development of a Novel Cell-Permeable Protein-Protein Interaction Inhibitor for the Polo-box Domain of Polo-like Kinase 1
DJ Huggins, BS Hardwick, P Sharma, A Emery, L Laraia, F Zhang, AJ Narvaez, M Roberts-Thomson, AT Crooks, RG Boyle, R Boyce, DW Walker, N Mateu, GJ McKenzie, DR Spring, AR Venkitaraman
– ACS omega
(2019)
5,
822
A cryptic hydrophobic pocket in the polo-box domain of the polo-like kinase PLK1 regulates substrate recognition and mitotic chromosome segregation.
P Sharma, R Mahen, M Rossmann, JE Stokes, B Hardwick, DJ Huggins, A Emery, DL Kunciw, M Hyvönen, DR Spring, GJ McKenzie, AR Venkitaraman
– Sci Rep
(2019)
9,
15930
A cryptic hydrophobic pocket in the polo-box domain of the polo-like kinase PLK1 regulates substrate recognition and mitotic chromosome segregation.
A Venkitaraman
– Scientific Reports
(2019)
9,
Direct Synthesis of N-Functionalized Dipropargylamine Linkers as Models for Use in Peptide Stapling
A Renzetti, RN Rutherford, K Fukumoto, D Kunciw, HF Sore, DR Spring
– Synlett
(2019)
30,
2153
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Research Group

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Telephone number

01223 336498

Email address

spring@ch.cam.ac.uk