My lab mates surprised me with an HPLC piñata and smashing it to bits was the most cathartic experience ever 😍 Thank you Roman Belle and Emma

The mini-MBA presentations for our MoSMed Innovation Challenge are underway. Looking forward to hearing some exciting ideas related to solutions for post-pandemic healthcare and well-being.

Passionate about chemical biology, peptides & display technologies? Two #chemicalbiology postdoc positions available in peptide discovery Kawamura Group funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Closing 4th May –bit.ly/3mQMGT2 , bit.ly/3N30dS3 Newcastle University Newcastle Chemistry.

Had a great time at the annual MoSMed CDT conference talking about my work and also hearing about all of the amazing science being done within the CDT. Dinner at St James' Park stadium was a nice treat too! #mosmed23 Kawamura Group

Congratulations to Tom Smith for winning the prize for best poster at the 2023 MoSMed Conference! This prize was kindly sponsored by AstraZeneca #mosmed23

Prof Akane Kawamura (Kawamura Group) has been awarded the Jeremy Knowles Award for the development and application of cutting-edge technologies and chemical probes to study and modulate therapeutically important biological processes #RSCprizes

Absolutely thrilled & honoured to be awarded the #RSCPrizes Jeremy Knowles Award Royal Society of Chemistry! Many thanks to my incredible team, collaborators & colleagues over the years, and funders for supporting my research.

Our #team enjoying the sunshine in Leazes Park Newcastle last Friday, to celebrate all the hard work the #chembio group has put in over the last few months and Prof Akane Kawamura being awarded the Jeremy Knowles Award (RSC Prize). #fridayfun #researchers

We have a very exciting event coming up Life Science Centre on Saturday 29 July! Come along and learn all about the marvellous world of molecules and medicines from our brilliant researchers through fun and interactive activities! 👇👇👇 life.org.uk/whats-on/event…

Check out our work on cyclic peptides targeting PHD-fingers featured Chemical Science #ChemSciCovers! Fantastic collaboration Tim Claridge ChemBioHub - Huber Lab AstraZeneca Special congrats to Oliver Coleman. European Research Council (ERC) SBM CDT Oxford Chemistry Newcastle Chemistry rsc.li/44yY6uK

Our final #ChemSciCovers🎨 this week features Tim Claridge, Kawamura Group et al.'s recent article 🤩 Cyclic peptides target the aromatic cage of a PHD-finger reader domain to modulate epigenetic protein function 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… 📌 Newcastle Chemistry | Oxford Chemistry

Come and meet MoSMed CDT doctoral researchers at Life Science Centre tomorrow and try some fun learning experiments! Entry 10am-5pm, details here: research.ncl.ac.uk/mosmed/impact/…… Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Medicinal Chemistry Group - Newcastle Uni Sciences at Newcastle Durham University Biophysical Sciences Institute Durham Chemistry

And that’s a wrap thank you so much to our fabulous researchers who gave up their time to take part in our MoSMed CDT Outreach event. And thank you so much to the fantastic Ben and Life Science Centre for having us! Durham Chemistry Durham BioSciences Newcastle Chemistry Sciences at Newcastle Newcastle University

Last month I participated in a fantastic outreach event at Life Science Centre, led by MoSMed CDT researchers. Connecting with families on microbiology, drug design, and chemistry through hands-on experiments was a blast! Big thanks to all organisers for making it happen!

Yesterday we were delighted to host Prof Hiroaki Suga from UTokyo | 東京大学, who delivered a fantastic talk on pseudo-natural #peptides, products and NeoBiologics, as a Newcastle Chemistry seminar. Many thanks for visiting Newcastle University and meeting our students & researchers!

Congratulations to our prize winners for the best pitch of a PhD project as part of our ideation process. Thank-you to Quotient Sciences for kindly sponsoring the prize. And to Stephen Byard for presenting it. Well done Katie Dowell of The Cobb Group, Siddique Amin and Matt

Starting our first session for the 2024 RSC Chemical Biology and Bioorganic Group postgrad symposium is Thomas Smith, a 3rd year PhD from Newcastle University, on engineering potent cyclic peptides

Kawamura Research and McAllister Lab chemical biologists had a team day in Durham combining dragon-boat racing, skills dev, and a surprise encounter with Matt Baker! Thanks Adventure Access & Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering People Fund for helping make this day out possible. Newcastle Chemistry Tom McAllister

📢 New preprint: "Active learning driven prioritisation of compounds from on-demand libraries targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease" by BenCree Mateusz Bieniek in collaboration with Siddique Amin Kawamura Group Now out in ChemRxiv! doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Researchers attended #RICT2024 in Bordeaux. Akane Kawamura gave a talk on cyclic #peptides and PhD Students Siddique Amin & Filomena Saulino presented posters on their work. A fantastic experience in a charming city, networking with other chemical biologists from around the globe!