2026 news
Researchers from the School of Physics, Engineering, and Technology have joined forces with the Department of Chemistry to create a new type of environmental gas sensor.
For effective cleaning we add surfactants (in soaps and detergents) to lower the surface tension of water. Using a new theory, a York chemist can explain this effect more effectively, developing new insights, and hence understand why some surfactants are much better at this job than others.
The Green Chemistry Centre has achieved and been awarded My Green Lab® Certification for Green Chemistry York at the Platinum Level.
The TransPharm consortium have collaborated to create an educational website explaining the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and describing safer and more sustainable practices in the healthcare sector. The platform can be found at www.sustainablepharmaceuticals.eu.
Scientists from the University of York have developed innovative self-assembling gels that direct and control the growth of human stem cells, with potential applications in regenerative medicine.
Alfonso Burri Mereles, a Chevening Scholar from Paraguay, explains how he overcame setbacks to pursue his passion for Green Chemistry at the University of York.
Professor Paul Walton has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS).
Two new doctoral training awards at the University of York will be used to train the next generation of scientists through specialised PhD programmes. They will equip these new researchers with the technical and transferable skills needed to contribute to the UK’s bioeconomy, while fostering a collaborative and inclusive training environment.
A new method for the preparation of medicinally important chiral sulfur compounds has been developed using a class of enzymes called ‘Unspecific Peroxygenases’.
Marc Dickinson of the University of York has received both a NERC Independent Research Fellowship and the Lewis Penny Award and for pioneering research using protein breakdown in teeth for dating the last 3 million years.
New research demonstrates a top-down approach to solution-phase protein structure determination that combines 2D-IR spectral libraries with machine learning.
Scientists at University of York were delighted to be recognised with an “outstanding research paper” award from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
York researchers have changed how we think about spore germination by showing that spores restart energy metabolism early on to power their awakening from dormancy.