Oct 2015 - New Students Join the Group

Three new PhD students (Richard, Kari and Chris), two MRes students (Kleo and Christy) and two MSci project students (Niels and Sean) join the group.

Richard, Kari and Chris join the group as PhD students:

Richard Thistlethwaite. Richard joins the group after completing an MChem in Chemistry at the University of Hull. His PhD research is focused on Chemical proteomic approaches to addressing the advance of fungi due to global warming. He is co-supervised by Dr. Rudiger Woscholski (Imperial Chemistry).

Kari Mosleh. Kari joins the group after completing a BA in Chemistry at Barnard College, Columbia, USA. She also has completed an MRes in catalysis at Imperial College working under the supervision of Dr Chris Cordier. Her PhD research is focused on the development of cross-coupling reactions using carbene precursors. She is co-supervised by Dr Chris Cordier.

Christian Nielson. Chris joins the group after completing an MSci in Chemistry at Imperial College. His final year undergraduate research project was supervised by Prof Jianrong (Steve) Zhou at Nanyang Technological University (NYU) Singapore. His PhD research is focused on looking for engineering solutions to overcome chemical limitations in catalytic cycles. He is co-supervised by Dr Jordi Bures (Chemistry, Manchester University) and Prof. Klaus Hellgardt (Chemical Engineering, Imperial)

Kleo and Christy join the group as MRes students:

Christy Maksoudian. Christy joins the group after completing a BA in Medicine/Biology at New York University (NYU). She is currently working on designing a drug-carrier system composed of modified afatinib (Quinazoline 16) conjugated onto the surface of gold nanoparticles for the targeted treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as her research project towards an MRes in Drug Design and Discovery.

Kleopas Palate. Kleo joins the group after completing an MChem in Chemistry at The University of York. He is currently working on compounds designed to distrupt the IgE-FcεRI protein-protein interface to establish the protein target of anti-asthma Aspercyclide A derivatives as his research project towards an MRes in Chemical Biology.

...and Niels and Sean join the group as MSci UG research project students:

Niels  Floden. Niels joins the group as a 4th year MSci student on the Imperial MSci Chemistry degree programme. He is currently working on the kinetic resolution of indolines by asymmetric sulfonylation catalysed by atropisomeric pyridine-N-oxide derivatives.

Sean Linsdall. Sean joins the group as a 5th year MSci student on the Imperial Chemistry with a year in Industry degree programme. He spent last year as an intern at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Stevenage. He is currently working on the total asymmetric synthesis of (-)-lophirone H via a Prins cyclisation strategy.