Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor David Spring

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

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
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b01224)
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
Chemical science
(2020)
11
(doi: 10.1039/d0sc01232g)
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
(doi: 10.3390/ijms21072490)
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
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00996)
Proteolysis targeting chimeras for the directed ubiquitination of the androgen receptor
E Fowler
(2020)
(doi: 10.17863/CAM.52529)
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
(doi: 10.1039/c9cc09050a)
Sulfatase-cleavable linkers for antibody-drug conjugates
JD Bargh, SJ Walsh, A Isidro-Llobet, S Omarjee, JS Carroll, DR Spring
Chemical Science
(2020)
11
(doi: 10.1039/c9sc06410a)
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
(doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03459)
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
(doi: 10.1039/d0ob00907e)
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
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(2020)
18
(doi: 10.1039/d0ob00831a)

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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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