CSAR 2026 PhD Student Award winner
Congratulations to Zixuan Wang, a PhD student in our group, who has been awarded a 2026 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Award. The CSAR PhD Student Awards recognise outstanding PhD students across the University of Cambridge whose research has the potential for real-world impact. Zixuan was selected as one of […]
Frontiers in biophysics and chemical biology symposium held with world leading scientists
On 4 April 2025, as part of the Novo Nordisk Prize 2024, Professors Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Sir David Klenerman, recipients of the 2024 award, hosted the “Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology” symposium at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, this one-day symposium featured an […]
We say goodbye and good luck to two of our PhD students
Dr Colm Doyle and Dr Jamie Edgerton have successfully completed their postgraduate studies in our group and moved on to pastures new. Colm joined the group in January 2021 after completing his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from University College Cork (UCC) Ireland. Colm’s interests in the fundamental mechanisms that regulate gene expression led him to […]
Dr Alissa Drees wins the Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize 2024
Alissa, who has joined our group in January 2024, has received the Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize 2024 from the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz (Germany) during their annual celebration. This Prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding young scientist in the natural sciences who, at an early stage of their academic […]
Welcome to our 2024 intake of PhD students
Welcome to the PhD students who joined the group in 2024. We are very excited to introduce Emily Fleming, Jen Munro and Alice Dubois-Veltman to the group and wish them every success for their 4-year PhD studies with us. Emily was the first to join in April 2024, having completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry […]
Former group PhD student wins thesis prize
Dr Bel Esain Garcia, who has recently left our group after completing her PhD studies, has won the CRUK CI Thesis Prize 2024. This prize is awarded annually to a student who has undertaken an outstanding research project to the highest standards during the course of their PhD study at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge […]
Four years of hard work has finally paid off!
Congratulations to David Schmidl who passed his PhD viva on October 7th. His examiners were Tom Brown, Professor of Nucleic Acid Chemistry from University of Oxford and Julian Willis who is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology here at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry. As David originates from Germany, it was only right to […]
Former group member receives an ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award
Dr Michael Booth, a former Balasubramanian group member, has received one of the 2024 ICBS Young Chemical Biologists Award from the International Chemical Biology Society. Mike is due to deliver his award lecture during the Rising Stars session at the ICBS annual conference in Toronto later in October. His lecture will be on remote-controlled nucleic […]
Congratulations to Jack and Sean!
Two of our current group members have secured lectureships and will be leaving us in the Autumn. Dr Jack Hardwick, who has been part of the Balasubramanian group for 5 years, will be joining the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol in December 2024. Jack joined us as a postdoc in 2019, having […]
Congratulations to Dr Esain Garcia
Congratulations go to Isabel Esain Garcia, who was recently examined by Dr Stephen Neidle of UCL and Dr Julian Sale from MRC-LMB on her thesis that included two main projects each exploring aspects of DNA G-quadruplex secondary structures and their interactions with chromatin, transcription and epigenetics. She passed with flying colours and enjoyed the whole […]