We’re excited to be hosting the RSC BMCS Post-grad symposium in Oxford this year on 9th Dec. Ian Gilbert (Dundee), Sharan Bagal (AstraZeneca) & Anthony Bradley (Exscientia) will be speaking. To join them submit your abstract now: rscbmcs.org/events/psxvi/ #BMCSPostGrad22

Fantastic to be here at the 2022 #EMBOChemBio EMBL Heidelberg. It’s been a superb and stimulating first day. And to cap it off, we (James and @joshsmalley15) will be presenting our poster #150 during the poster session later. 🤩 Can’t wait!

Great start to the MCB & LISCB PhD Research Symposium today! A fantastic array of posters, really enjoyed talking to everyone. Shout out to Hodgkinson Group, members Meg and Wiktoria on their posters🙌🙌. Now for some talks from 1st year PhDs 🤩🤓

Top event by Royal Society of Chemistry East Midlands and Dr Laura Reyes on “Missing Elements: Racial and ethnic inequalities in the chemical science.” Very inspiring stories from the panel. Thank you from the Leicester Chemistry contingent Dr Fabrizio Ortu Sandy Kilpatrick Chris Marsh James Pickering

Another year, another fantastic LISCB / MCB Bake Off and Macmillan Cancer Support coffee morning. So many talented bakers!🎂🍰🧁🍪🍩☕️🫖 Thanks to everyone who took part or popped by for cake! Over £400 raised in 3 hours - incredible!! 😇 #baking #bakeoff #macmillancoffeemorning

Baker et al LISCB University of Leicester report a novel combination of HDAC and IAP ligands that generates a PROTAC which potently stimulates apoptosis and differential gene expression in human cancer cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #targeteddegradation #cancer #protac

Delighted to have passed my PhD viva yesterday🙌 Very grateful to my examiners Glenn (Burley Research Group) and Richard Doveston for their generous comments and discussions on taking the research forwards. And huge thanks to my supervisors James, John and Shaun! Hodgkinson Group Leicester Ram

Had an excellent day Sussex Chemistry and met some great people- big thanks to John, Cristina and Damien!

New paper out now! Using click chemistry to make novel class I HDAC PROTACs. Leicester Chemistry LISCB pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Great end to the week for the group!

Christmas Competition alert 🚨🎄🎅☃️ To get us into the festive spirit, we are encouraging Early Career Researchers from the East Midlands to get creative and make their own Christmas Chemistree! See events link below and please get involved! rsc.org/events/detail/…

Group Christmas Meal.🎅🏻☃️🎄 A wonderful opportunity to thank Aline (Aline Pavan) for being an amazing addition to the group this year! Glad to hear she’s already arrived safely home in Brazil and has a BBQ in stall for lunch -enjoy!🇧🇷😁 Best of luck with the remainder of your PhD!

You can’t miss Josh in the lab! Our Christmas Entertainment Officer 😂

Awesome day celebrating Josh’s PhD graduation.

Back by popular demand! For all of my University of Leicester friends/followers, you are welcome to come and have pancakes in the School Chemistry next Tuesday from 4:15 pm. Liquid nitrogen ice cream will return once again. See you there!😎🥞 @leicesterchem #pancakes #chemtwitter

A flippin’ fantastic pancake day in Leicester Chemistry yesterday. Liquid nitrogen ice cream was a big hit! Well worth 3hrs of pancake flipping on Monday evening-150 in total 🥞🤩 And £70 in donations raised for British Red Cross 🧡 appeals for Turkey-Syria earthquake and Ukraine crisis.

Fantastic array of research presented at the Leicester Chemistry PGR symposium today. Including two cracking talks from group members Meg and Wiktoria - great job both!👏😎 LISCB

New review out now. A team Hodgkinson Group effort to put this together.

New paper out now. All work carried out by our British Bake Off star Dr Josh Smalley. 👏👏👏 A man of many talents!