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· April 2013: Congratulations to Catherine! She has been selected as one of only five speakers to compete for the 2013 Ede & Ravenscroft Prize—click here to read

· March 2013: Congratulations to Mario! Our first PhD has taken a job as a Medicinal Chemist at Redx Anti-Infectives.

· January 2013: Group member Kathryn Wills has been interviewed for Chemistry World—click here to read.

· December 2012: Congratulations to Catherine! Her full paper on C–H Activation with Aluminium has been chosen for the front cover of OBC. Click here to read.

· November 2012: We have just been awarded HEIF funding for the development of new pancreatic cancer treatments.

· October 2012: We have been awarded a grant from the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account to work with Almac Group of Belfast to work on commercialising our research on bio-oxidation for application in the production of new organocatalysts — click here.

· September 2012: Congratulations to Monika on passing her PhD viva! - Click here for the Photos

· May 2012: Congratulations to Mario on passing his PhD viva! Click here for the photos...

· November 2011: Simon has won a 2012 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award!

· October 2011: We thank the Royal Society for a grant to continue our work on azacarbasugars.

· October 2011: Goodbye to Matthew, who is off to work for Prof. Gerry Pattenden.

· July 2011: Congratulations to Mario, whose work on C-H activation of decalin has been published in Synlett

· June 2011: Congratulations to Matthew—his total synthesis of (+)-grandifloracin has been published in Org. Lett.

· April 2011: Congratulations to Julia — her OBC article on the biooxidation of meta-bromobenzoic acid has just been published.

· March 2011: Congratulations to Sarah Pilgrim — her Chem. Comm. on “Inosaminoacids” has just been published.

· November 2010: Welcome to Syeda Farina Asghar, a visiting postgraduate scholar from Pakistan who is joining us for 6 months

· October 2010: Welcome to new group members! Dr Matthew Palframan has joined the group on a postdoctoral fellowship; Julia, Kathryn and Catherine have all returned to start full PhDs in the group; Michael Gerry and Jennifer White have joined as undergraduate project students.

· August 2010: Congratulations to Monika on the publication of her article in ChemComm! Click here to read.

· June 2010: We welcome Amelie Le Coz, Benjamin Ferreres and Pierre-Adrien Giraud to the group, three summer students from ESCOM.

· May 2010: We thank Pfizer for a generous donation of lab equipment.

· November 2009: Congratulations to Monika! Her paper on iron tricarbonyl complexes has been published in Organometallics. Click here to read

· October 2009: Welcome to new group members! Julia Griffen and Kathryn Wills have joined the group as part of their studies with the new Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemistry. They will be working on Bio-oxidation and Solar Cells. Additionally, we welcome three new masters students: Sarah Abou-Shehada, Catherine Lyall and Dominic van der Waals. Sarah Pilgrim has also decided to stay in the group for her masters project.

· September 2009: Masters student Tom Baker has had his work on bifunctional silyl triflates accepted for publication in Synthetic Communications.

· July 2009: Our contribution to the RSC’s Annual Reports has been published: Click here to read.

· July 2009: We welcome Sarah Pilgrim to the group—Sarah will be undertaking a summer project on inositol synthesis.

· October 2008: We welcome our first-ever Ph.D. students! Monika Khan and Mario Martin have joined the group and you can find out more about them on the Group Members page.

· May 2008: OSI Prosidion have generously provided funding for our studies on Nidulalin A.

· January 2008: We thank GlaxoSmithKline for a generous donation of lab equipment.