Aisha Jabeen Syed joins the project

Aisha has recently joined the PoPPI project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in synthesis and chemical biology. She is working on small molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.

Sergio Celis joins the project

Sergio Celis has recently joined the project as a  postdoctoral research associate working on the development of small-molecule and peptide based inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.

Zsofia Hegedus wins prize at Eighth PPSG Early Stage Researcher Meeting

Congratulations to Zsofia on winning a poster prize at the Eighth PPSG Early Stage Researcher Meeting, July 2018. Her poster, Ligand-Directed Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry for Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions, outlined the development of dynamic covalent chemistry approach using peptide-small molecule hybrid structures to target b-sheet mediated protein-protein interactions.

Suzanne Renwick joins the project

Suzanne has joined the programme as a first year PhD student having spent some time in industry after completing her Masters Degree in Chemistry with Drug Discovery at the University of Strathclyde.

Matt Foulkes joins the project

Matt has recently joined the project as a postdoctoral research associate, having recently completed his PhD at Sheffield.

Kristina Hetherington wins CBBG PGR Symposium poster prize

Congratulations to Kris on winning a poster prize at the RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group Postgraduate Symposium on 10 May 2018. The Symposium, hosted at the University of Leeds, was an opportunity for early career scientists from a broad range of chemical biology backgrounds to come together, share their work and discuss the latest research. Kris’s poster on experimental validation of hot residue predictions for β-strand mediated protein-protein interactions made an impression on the judges with its multidisciplinary emphasis. Kris has been with PoPPI since the start of the … read more >

Zsofia Hegedus wins prize at School’s Postdoctoral Conference

Congratulations to Zsofia on winning Best Oral Presentation at the School of Chemistry Postdoctoral Conference on 15th Dec 2017. Her presentation titled ‘Ligand-Directed Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry for Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions’ outlined the development of a dynamic covalent chemistry approach using peptide-small molecule hybrid structures for targeting protein-protein interactions. Zsofia is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Thomas Edwards and Andy Wilson. She is funded through a personal EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship that started in May 2017, having initially joined the group on the PoPPI programme. Her … read more >