Posted on Friday 11 May 2012

The Wellcome Trust has awarded Dr Fred Antson a 5-year Senior Research Fellowship

Posted on Friday 11 May 2012

Professor David Smith, Professor Ally Lewis and Professor Richard Taylor have all been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry prizes.

Posted on Wednesday 9 May 2012

Head of Chemistry Richard Taylor was successful with two recent EPSRC grant applications (decisions announced in March). Both were single applicant bids via the responsive mode system, each for postdoctoral support and consumables (around £800k in total) with start dates in September 2012.

Posted on Friday 10 February 2012

Bruker is to sponsor the Third Year Graduate Student Poster Competition

Posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012

The atmospheric research group in the Department of Chemistry have had three new grants funded through the NERC standard grants scheme, totalling around £900k.

Posted on Wednesday 18 January 2012

Dr Gideon Grogan (YSBL, Chemistry) and Professor Neil Bruce (CNAP, Biology) have been awarded £650,000 by the European Union for the Marie-Curie Network project P4FIFTY.

Posted on Wednesday 4 January 2012

Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce and cause disease.

Posted on Tuesday 3 January 2012

Paul Clarke highlights his group's progress on origins of life

Posted on Monday 21 November 2011

Over 9,000 people in the UK suffer from cystic fibrosis, an inherited condition that causes chronic lung infections and a life expectancy of just 37 years. Therapies under development at York could transform the lives of people who suffer from this cruel genetic disorder and the vehicle used to deliver them is only a couple of nanometres across.

Posted on Wednesday 2 November 2011

Professor John Goodby FRS, Doctors Stephen Cowling and Isabel Saez and Professor Peter Raynes FRS have been awarded a research grant by the EPSRC entitled "Self-Organisation and Self-Assembly in Aliphatic Based Liquid Crystals" to start at the beginning of 2012. The total value of the grant is over £800,000.

Posted on Wednesday 16 March 2011

Recent work published by Professor David Smith’s research group has reported new nano-systems which may eventually help patients recovering from surgery.

Posted on Friday 11 March 2011

Worked carried out by Dr Anne Duhme-Klair and her group at York has discovered potent Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitors

Posted on Thursday 17 February 2011

Funded jointly by NERC and the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund, the investment is in major capital equipment in the Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry.

Posted on Wednesday 11 November 2009

Staff in the Green Chemistry Centre (GCC) have won almost £2 million in new research grants in the last two months.

Posted on Wednesday 15 July 2009

Dr Jason Lynam and Dr John Slattery awarded £267,639 from EPSRC to research less well known organometallic catalysts

Posted on Monday 27 April 2009

Professor Gideon Davies has been awarded a grant of £548,967 by the BBSRC to work on alpha-mannosidase catalysis and transition-state mimicry. Professor Rod Hubbard has been awarded a grant from BBSRC for £112,878 in order to develop enhanced computational methods for drug discovery.

Posted on Friday 20 March 2009

Professor Richard Taylor has just been awarded a major EPSRC research grant worth £291,080 to initiate an exciting project.

Posted on Monday 16 March 2009

Dr Jacqueline Hamilton has been awarded a prestigious Yorkshire Enterprise Fellowship for her project 'development of a lab on a chip gas chromatograph'.

Posted on Friday 13 February 2009

A research fellowship renewal has been awarded by the Royal Society to Dr Ian Fairlamb October 2009 until September 2012.