News and events

Irina Chuckowree (Spencer group) wins the 2010 School of Science Best PhD prize.
Recent grant successes with USA National MS Society (FastForward - CenTRion pdf download, and Merck) and Nanoporetech.
PLENEVA™ (BGC20-0134) Phase IIa clinical trial in Relapse Remitting Mutiple Sclerosis on track (Laurence Harbige and Mike Leach in collaboration with British Technology Group International).
Dr A. Puglisi was awarded a scholarship for First Summer School on Cyclodextrins (Pharmaceutical Applications: State Of Art And Perspectives) 6–8 June 2010 - Porto Conte Ricerche - University of Sassari (Italy).
Dr Simon Richardson: Invited speaker and session chair at the 3rd International CDTM Symposium, Cardiff University.
Richardson group poster: "The Characterisation of a Recombinant Ricin Toxin B Chain" at “Microbiology, Genomics, and Beyond: regulating dual use technologies into the 21st Century” The Wellcome Trust.
Spencergroup poster: ICOS-18 conference, Bergen, Norway, “Suzuki-Miyaura Mediated Biphenyl Synthesis: A Spotlight on the Boronate Coupling Partner."
Getti group posters presented at Canterbury Kent and Australia, 2010:

“Antileishmanial activity of Yucatecan plant extracts”
“Leishmania spp. – Survival strategies after entry to the host by the bite of the sandfly”
"The benzodiazepine class of compounds as a potential for the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis."
"Expressionof GFP in Old and New world Leishmania species as a tool for screening compound libraries."