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50 years ago, Guy and Eleanor Dodson arrived in York. The group they founded in 1976, now known as the York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL), has grown to be a major international centre for the development and application of structural biology. To mark this half century of excellence a conference was held on campus to celebrate past achievements and think about the future of structural biology at York.

York is ranked 8th in the UK for Chemistry in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2027).

Dr Will Unsworth has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Organic Chemistry mid-career Robert Robinson Prize.

A collaborative team led by Professor Andrew Weller has been awarded a 2026 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Horizon Prize. This team award recognises their pioneering development of Solid-state Molecular OrganoMetallic (SMOM) chemistry.

The 2026 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Horizon Prize at the Chemistry Biology Interface has been awarded to a team including Professor Tony Wilkinson, for collaboration underpinning the development of new tools to deliver the identification, and chemical and genetic validation, of multiple new drug targets for leishmaniasis and Chagas’ disease.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has recognised a major scientific network for its outstanding contribution to the global analytical sciences community.

Three chemistry PhD researchers progressed to the final of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of York, winning first and second place overall.

York chemists, working with international collaborators, show that small structural changes to a cisplatin-like platinum compound transform it into a non-toxic antibiotic that clears drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from mice skin infections.