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A successful Careers Event!

7 June 2023

The Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Committee held our first-ever in-house careers event last Monday! This event featured many speakers throughout their professional careers, with many being Department Alumni. Our speakers were: Dr Brendan Swain, Shift Bioscience, Chief Scientific Officer Dr Dafne Chirivino, Cambridge...

Department to welcome Gates Cambridge Scholarship students

17 April 2023

We are proud to announce that our Department will be welcoming two Gates Cambridge scholarship students this year! This is excellent news, as the Gates Cambridge scholarship is the University’s flagship international postgraduate scholarship program, with our Department’s students being part of the official 2023 77-person...

Young Pharams 2023 now Complete!

29 March 2023

Over the past three months, sixth formers from Hills Road, Long Road, Camberton and The Oaks have been busy carrying out scientific experiments and investigating key concepts in pharmacology Sixth-formers have returned to Cambridge University to take part in the Young Pharmas scheme. From Hills Road, Long Road, Camberton...

Congratulations to Charlotte Guffick for her successful PhD viva!

16 March 2023

We are very happy to announce that Charlotte Guffick, a member of the Van Veen Lab, has successfully defended her PhD thesis! Her thesis was titled ' Novel Strategies towards the Inhibition of ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Transporters from Pathogenic Bacteria'. This research is expected to impact the wider development of...

Congratulations to Cynthia Okoye for her successful PhD viva!

6 March 2023

We are very happy to announce that Cynthia Okoye has successfully defended her PhD viva! Her thesis was titled ' Harnessing the Anaphase Promoting Complex for Targeted Protein Degradation'. It focused on designing molecules that can be used to hijack a particular ubiquitin ligase. This facilitates the targeted destruction...

Congratulations to Abigail Pearce for her successful PhD viva!

21 February 2023

We are proud to announce that Abigail Pearce, a member of the Cell Signalling Group, has successfully defended her Viva. Her thesis she defended is entitled "Influence of Peptide Allosteric Modulators on Agonist Bias at Class B1 G protein-Coupled Receptors", which looks at the endogenous mechanisms by which Class B1 GPCRs...

Congratulations to Dr Maria Zacharopoulou for receiving the Ernest Oppenheimer Research Fellowship

14 February 2023

Dr Maria Zacharopoulou, a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Itzhaki Lab, recently won the prestigious E rnest Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship . This three-year fellowship will commence in October 2023, focusing on a collaboration project between the Itzhaki and Mela labs. The collaboration will focus on...

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

10 February 2023

The annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) is set for Saturday 11th of February. Spearheaded by the United Nations , the day celebrates the vital contribution of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). To coincide with this day, we recently interviewed Dr...

Congratulations to Dr Mark Waterhouse for winning an AZ award

4 November 2022

The department would like to congratulate Dr Mark Waterhouse from Khaled Lab on being selected as one of the six finalists for AstraZeneca’s R&D Postdoctoral Challenge . AstraZeneca recently held its R&D Postdoctoral Challenge with research positions for two years at one of the Company’s strategic R&D centres...

New PhD Studentships posted on the website

19 October 2022

We are excited to announce that we have five fully funded PhD studentships available in the Department, currently accepting applications. Please see our PhD Studentships and Jobs pages for more information.

A successful Careers Event!

Department to welcome Gates Cambridge Scholarship students

Young Pharams 2023 now Complete!

Congratulations to Charlotte Guffick for her successful PhD viva!

Congratulations to Cynthia Okoye for her successful PhD viva!

Congratulations to Abigail Pearce for her successful PhD viva!

Congratulations to Dr Maria Zacharopoulou for receiving the Ernest Oppenheimer Research Fellowship

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Congratulations to Dr Mark Waterhouse for winning an AZ award

New PhD Studentships posted on the website

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