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Research Excellence Framework 2021 Results

The results of the UK-wide assessment of university research, conducted through the latest Research Excellence...

The results of the UK-wide assessment of university research, conducted through the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF), have been published.

Professor Colin Kleanthous elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences

New Fellows are recognised for outstanding contributions to biomedical and health science and their ability to...

New Fellows are recognised for outstanding contributions to biomedical and health science and their ability to generate new knowledge and improve the health of people everywhere

Postdoc Poster Session 2022

Postdoctoral researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and neighbouring Departments hosted a poster session...

Postdoctoral researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and neighbouring Departments hosted a poster session to present their work

COVID-19 therapeutics: challenges and directions for the future

Development of oral broad-spectrum host-targeting antivirals should be a priority for preventing future viral epidemics...

Development of oral broad-spectrum host-targeting antivirals should be a priority for preventing future viral epidemics from turning into pandemics

World Malaria Day 2022: Department of Biochemistry researchers working to develop Malaria vaccines

Watch: Professors Simon Draper and Matt Higgins from the Department of Biochemistry and the Kavli Institute discuss...

Watch: Professors Simon Draper and Matt Higgins from the Department of Biochemistry and the Kavli Institute discuss their work in the context of Malaria vaccine development

New Biochemistry Building renamed the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin made key contributions to Medical Sciences and was the third woman to win the Nobel Prize...

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin made key contributions to Medical Sciences and was the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Lister Institute Research Prize award event in the Department of Biochemistry

The Department of Biochemistry hosted an award ceremony to commemorate Associate Professor Stephan Uphoff's...

The Department of Biochemistry hosted an award ceremony to commemorate Associate Professor Stephan Uphoff's award for the 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize

Marjorie Fournier, manager of the Advanced Proteomics Facility

Life in the Department of Biochemistry: Advanced Proteomics Facility

Find out more about Advanced Proteomics in the Department of Biochemistry, one of our six Small Research Facilities...

Find out more about Advanced Proteomics in the Department of Biochemistry, one of our six Small Research Facilities open to colleagues across the Medical Sciences Division

Department of Biochemistry researchers at the Microbiology Society’s 2022 conference

We were delighted to see a number of researchers, PostDocs, and students from the Department of Biochemistry exhibit...

We were delighted to see a number of researchers, PostDocs, and students from the Department of Biochemistry exhibit their work at the Microbiology Society's annual conference

Department of Biochemistry researchers working to develop antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics

In The Lancet, Professors Raymond Dwek and Nicole Zitzmann emphasise the importance of new, host-targeting antiviral...

In The Lancet, Professors Raymond Dwek and Nicole Zitzmann emphasise the importance of new, host-targeting antiviral drugs in treating COVID-19 and stopping future pandemics

Raff Medal Winner 2022: Former Department of Biochemistry student is the winner of the British Society for Cell Biology PhD Award

Florence Young studied for her combined undergraduate and Masters degree in the Department of Biochemistry and...

Florence Young studied for her combined undergraduate and Masters degree in the Department of Biochemistry and graduated with Honours in 2017.

Former Department of Biochemistry Part II student is first author of Nature Communications paper about radiation damage in proteins

New metric will allow researchers to judge the degree of radiation damage inflicted on the protein during the X-ray...

New metric will allow researchers to judge the degree of radiation damage inflicted on the protein during the X-ray diffraction experiment performed to determine the structure