01/24 Congratulations to Ninie (Nur Aininie Yusoh), who gave a fanstastic defence of her PhD thesis in the viva!
10/23 Welcome to Matthew Lewis who starts his MChem research project with us.
10/23 Congratulations to Steffan James, who has successfully defended his MSc by Research degree!
05/23 Paper out! Swansea/UPM collaboration in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Well done to Paul and Steff and thanks to Ninie for all her hard work. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c00322
04/23 Paper out! From X. Tian's lab out in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical with small involvement from Martin in: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092540052300583X
01/23 Paper out! Swansea/UPM collaboration out in Scientific Reports, looking at Ru-PIP and Olaparib synergy in lung cancer. Many congrats to Ninie for all her hard work on this.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28454-x
01/23 Paper out! A Swansea JACS, it had to be... :)
"Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes as FRET Donors: Structure- and Sequence-Selective DNA-Binding and Anticancer Properties"
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.2c11111
Congratulations to Chris and thanks to all involved.
10/22 Welcome to Steffan James, who joins the group as an MRes student, and Elias Ash, who will be doing his MChem project with us.
08/22 Chemical Biology Ireland was grand, very thought-provoking research going on. Excellent poster from Natalia.
8/07/22 Great to be asked to talk at RSC Nucleic Acids Forum
10/05/22 Paper out in Angewandte Chemie Int Ed:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202117449
We assumed the antiproliferative effects of "RuRuPhen" would be DNA-based as the molecule's such a nice DNA imaging agent... t'was actin all along.
28/03/22 Congratulations to Paul Tiley, who has finished his MSc by Research degree!
28/01/22 Welcome to three new project students, Dom Conway, Steff James and Jake Stubbs start their research.
04/10/21 Welcome to Natália Kolozsvári who starts her PhD with us.
22/02/21 Welcome to Chris Elgar who joins the group as a PDRA.
25/01/21 Welcome to George Fox, a Chemistry BSc project student joining the lab for his final year project.
24/01/21 Two papers out in Pharmaceutics, with Prof Haslina Ahmad, UPM. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/13/2/150 and https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/13/2/152. New topic in silica nanoparticles and credit to Ain and Eleen for their hard work.
05/01/21 Welcome to Paul Tiley who joins the group as an MRes student!
18/11/20 Paper out! Final version of our ChemMedChem review now published:
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cmdc.202000391
This is part of a "Metals in medicine" ChemMedChem/EJIC special collection with guest editors Prof. Angela Casini and Prof. Edith (Phoebe) Glazer and also is a VIP paper!
10/08/20 Paper out! Ever wondered what happens when you label a ruthenium polypyridyl complex with a radiometal? Find out in Chemical Science:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/sc/d0sc02825h#!divAbstract
23/05/20 Video on our stuff on SwanseaChem's twitter page courtesy of some amazing editing from Dr Francisco Martin-Martinez! https://twitter.com/SwanseaChem/status/1263516309222023169
And if it looks like I've been in the same room for weeks, well.... I have.
03/01/20 Paper out! Nice start to the new year: Ninie (Nur Aininie Yusoh) has her paper "Metallointercalator [Ru(dppz)2(PIP)]2+ Renders BRCA Wild-Type Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Hypersensitive to PARP Inhibition" published in ACS Chemical Biology. - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acschembio.9b00843
Work in collaboration with Dr Haslina Ahmad, University Putra Malaysia. Link.
