2026 news
Research led by the Department of Archaeology, with crucial input from the Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry in the Department of Chemistry, reveals two infants buried in Roman York were laid to rest in costly purple cloth normally reserved for emperors and members of the aristocracy.
A collaboration between the University of York, the University of Leeds, and AstraZeneca has bridged chemistry and engineering to streamline drug synthesis using continuous flow technology, offering a faster, safer, and more scalable future for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
The annual poster competition for our Yr 3 PhD students has taken place, with kind sponsorship once again by Johnson Matthey. This year we were joined by Dr Paul O’Shaughnessy from JM who took time to view posters, chat with participants about their work, and give a talk on recycling platinum group metals.
The findings from a RSC Sustainable Laboratories grant funded project at the University of York have recently been highlighted in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World Magazine.
The complete lifecycle of a manganese complex as it participates in chemically important bond-activation steps has been mapped on timescales from femtoseconds to seconds. Novel, critical, and unexpected, pathways have been identified, which will inform the development of future light-activated reactions.
Often, air pollution is thought of as something that happens outside. Yet the air inside our homes may pose just as significant a risk to our health and as we typically spend 90% of our time indoors, our exposure to pollutants there is higher than outdoor exposure. This is a concern that science has, until recently, been surprisingly slow to address. The University of York is changing that, with a facility unlike anything else in the world.
Scientists say that new laboratory tests have revealed a new way to stop flu viruses, which could lead to better treatments and improved pandemic preparedness.
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.