The School of Chemistry's Professor Carmen Galan is among a multi-centre group of scientists to have found a way to create artificial sugars that could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat diseases more accurately than ever before.
The University of Bristol has received a £1million grant from the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to establish a new Centre for Chemical Characterisation in Heritage Sciences – an initiative that will span Arts, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.
Dr Alastair Lennox has been awarded an International Science Partnership Fund Collaboration Award of £225,000 to work in collaboration with a team in Minas Gerais, Brazil, to develop new treatments towards Chagas disease.
In August, a group of academic staff from the School of Chemistry presented talks at the Variety in Chemistry Education/ Physics Higher Education Conference (ViCEPHEC) 2024, hosted by the University of Surrey.
School of Chemistry Technical Specialist Dr Rob Harniman has secured landmark funding of over £1m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for a cutting-edge Atomic Force Microscopy (bio-AFM) platform at the University of Bristol, to enhance bioscience research in multi-disciplinary programmes across life, health, physical and environmental sciences.
New research has uncovered that factories worldwide are failing to adequately eliminate a highly potent greenhouse gas produced during the manufacturing of fluoropolymers, such as Teflon, and refrigerants.
The School of Chemistry's Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant with value of €3.2m over five years to study photochemical reactions in water droplets only a few micrometres in diameter.
The School of Chemistry's Professor Varinder Aggarwal has been awarded the Horst Pracejus Prize for 2025 from the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
A symposium in memory of Dr Chris Adams will be held on Friday 27th June 2025, at the School of Chemistry.
Our very own Professor Dek Woolfson and Professor Jonathan Clayden have been recognised for their substantial contributions to the advancement of science with Fellowship in the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. Both of these world-leading scientists contribute to understanding structure and function of molecules at the interface of chemistry and biology.
