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10/09/2024 Congratulations to Dr Aidan McKeown who successfully defended his thesis today. Aidan was a collaborative PhD student with GSK with his research focused on iridium catalysis for hydrogenation of imines.
11/03/2024 Congratulations to Dr Paul Mulrainey who successfully defended his thesis today. Paul was a collaborative PhD student with GSK with his research focused on iridium catalysis for C-C bond formation.
23/01/2024 Congratulations to Dr Megan Cuthbert who successfully defended her thesis today. Megan’s research was in collaboration with Merck US and focused on hydrogen isotope exchange methods for amino acids and peptides.
11/01/2024 Good luck to our PhD student Andrew Dalgleish who will defend his thesis today.
09/01/2024 Congratulations to our PhD student Dan Webb who picked up who picked up a Poster Prize at the RSC-BMS Postgraduate Symposium XVII in Oxford this week. Dan’s PhD research on protein degradation is funded by Medical Research Scotland and in collaboration with Charles River Laboratories.
11/12/2023 Congratulations to our PhD student Blair Smith who presented at the 9th Winter Process Chemistry Conference in Liverpool, where he received a Scientific Update Young Chemist Award.
06/12/23 Congratulations to our collaborative GSK-based PhD student David Fernandez who was awarded the participants’ poster prize at this year’s RSC Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium. David presented his research on novel copper-catalysed C(sp3)-C(sp3) cross-coupling methods.
29/11/2023 New paper out in Chem. Eur. J. on copper-mediated N-trifluoromethylation of O-benzoylhydroxylamines. Well done to our collaborative GSK-based PhD student Tom Fleetwood and everyone supporting research.
02/10/2023 Good luck to our PhD student Blair Smith who will present his science at the Fourth GSK Synthetic Organic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium this week.
16/08/2023 New paper out in ACS Catal. on the late stage methylation of aryl chlorides. Well done to Elliot Davenport and everyone supporting his PhD work.
17/06/2023 Well done to David Fernandez Aguado who has been awarded a Fellowship to attend the European School of Medicinal Chemistry Seminar in Italy in July.
17/06/2023 We are delighted for our collaborative GSK PhD student, Marina Economidou, who has been awarded a very prestigious SCI Scholarship. Many congratulations, Marina!
16/06/2023 Congratulations to our PhD student Paul Mulrainey for picking up the top presentation prize at this year’s University of Strathclyde/University of Glasgow Postgraduate Symposium.
31/05/2023 New paper out in Chem. Sci. on the mechanism of mechanism of the copper(I)-catalysed sulfonylative Suzuki–Miyaura reaction. Well done to everyone involved.
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