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Latest news

 

Oct 2025 - Huge congratulations to Hannah, Lizzie and Rowan for running the Oxford Half Marathon! 

Oct 2025 - Welcome to Victoria, Malcom, Qingqing and Zelalemawee, our new group members! 

Oct 2025 - Well done to Hannah U and Adam for submitting their PhD theses!

Sep 2025 - Welcome to Abigail, Emon, Dylan and Haozhe, our Part II students this year! 

Aug 2025 - Goodbye and good luck to Dr Ríona Devereux as she starts a Postdoctoral Research position in the McGouran Group at Trinity College Dublin

Aug 2025 - Read about Pol & Angie's new perspective and bioisostere replacement data-mining workflow in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, here.

Jul 2025 - Thanks to Hannah U, we have retained our Gold LEAF accreditation.

Jun 2025 - Congratulations to Adam for winning a prize for his oral communication at the RSC CBBG Postgraduate Symposium in Aberdeen.

Jun 2025 - Well done to Carrie, Gabriel, Cherry & Josh for handing in their Part II Theses! 

May 2025 - HUGE congratulations to Adam, Ríona, Rowan, Listi, Gabriel, Pol & Cherry who ran the Town & Gown 10K for Muscular Dystrophy UK!

May 2025 - Congratulations to Adam for winning a prize for his talk at the Vertex Final Year Graduate Symposium.

Apr 2025 - Congratulations to Ríona for being awarded the "William C. Stanley" Early Investigator Award at the SHVM Annual Scientific Meeting 2025.

Apr 2025 - Goodbye to Dr Massimiliano Runfola, and good luck for the future!

Apr 2025 - Congratulations to Adam who will be joining Vertex as a Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology Research Scientist.

Mar 2025 - Congratulations to Ríona for being awarded the Lockey Fund for travel to SHVM Annual Scientific Meeting 2025.

Feb 2025 - Well done to Marc for his oral communication at the Young Fellows Meeting of the French MedChem Society in Paris.

Feb 2025 - Congratulations to Adam and Hannah U for passing their DPhil Confirmation of Status Vivas.

Jan 2025 - Congratulations to Angie on her appointment as Executive Editor of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

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