The Stone Symposium 2025

The prestigious Stone Symposium returns to the School of Chemistry on Wednesday, 12 November 2025.

Stone Symposium 2025 - hosted by Professor Robin Bedford, Professor Natalie Fey, and Dr Chris Russell, University of Bristol.

Headline Speaker

Professor Paul Pringle, University of Bristol

Title: The role of design, curiosity and luck in P-ligand invention for homogeneous catalysis or nuclear medicine

Keynote Speakers

Professor Liam Ball, University of Bristol

Organobismuth reagents for synthesis and catalysis

Dr Michelle Ma, Kings College London

Delivery of radioactive 99mTc and 188Re to cancers using versatile diphosphine chelators

Professor Derek Woollins, University of St. Andrews (Emeritus)

The Isolobal Analogy in p block chemistry  ..a history lesson