Murphy Group News Feed
Updated 17/07/2018
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12/07/2018
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21/06/2018
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Well done to both Sam Dalton and Florimond Cumine who graduated with PhD. Congratulations also to Daniela Dimitrova and Kenny Clark who graduated with 1st class marks in their MChem. We wish them all the best for the future!
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20/06/2018
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Prof. Murphy presented recent work in the group at the EuCHeMS conference on Organic Free Radicals (ECOFR 2018) in Marseille, France. Simon and Norman also attended the conference, where they presented their posters.
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11/06/2018
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Welcome to Sarah Walker, a Masters student from the University of New Brunswick (Canada) who joins the group on a 3-month placement.
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08/06/2018
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Congratulations to Simon Rohrbach for winning 1st prize for his presentation at the WestCHEM Organic Chemistry Symposium 2018 (held at the University of Strathclyde)!
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01/06/2018
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Well done to Ian Bartholomew and Prof. Murphy for winning the University of Strathclyde squash doubles competition!
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07/05/2018
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14/03/2018
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Well done to Sam Dalton for passing his PhD viva today with Prof. Adam Nelson from the University of Leeds. He will be starting a new job at Astex Pharmaceuticals. We wish him all the best for the future!
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22/01/2018
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Congratulations to Florimond Cumine who passed his PhD viva today with Prof. Chris Willis of the University of Bristol. He has started a new job at Pharmaron. We wish him all the best for the future!
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01/01/2018
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Happy New Year from the Murphy Group!
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20/12/2017
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Farewell to Philipp Gerdt, a Masters student from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster who joined the group on a 3-month placement! We wish him all the best for the future.
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13/12/2017
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08/12/2017
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01/11/2017
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Welcome to Dr. Fabrizio Palumbo, who joins the group as a Post-Doc.
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20/10/2017
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The Reaxys PhD Prize has been announced. Huge congratulations to Joshua Barham who has won at Shanghai! He was one of 3 winners from over 550 submissions from which 45 finalists were selected and then shortlisted to 10 to deliver an oral presentation.
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12/10/2017
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Welcome to Rhys Lippa who starts his PhD in the group! Rhys will be based at GSK.
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11/10/2017
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Congratulations to Florimond Cumine and Allan Young for their paper in Eur. J. Org. Chem.!
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05/10/2017
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04/10/2017
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Welcome to Daniela Dimitrova, Kenny Clark and Luke Simpson who join the group for their final year (experimental) projects.
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02/10/2017
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Welcome to Jack Roberts who starts his PhD in the group! Jack will be based at GSK.
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26/09/2017
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Congratulations to Joshua Barham who has been selected as one of 10 candidates to present their work at the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium at Shanghai on 19th and 20th of October 2017. There were about 550 submissions for the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize from which 45 finalists were selected and then shortlisted to 10. Three winners will be chosen by the Reaxys Advisory Board and PhD Prize Coordinators. Good luck Joshua!
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18/09/2017
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Welcome to Philipp Gerdt, a Masters student from Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster who joins the group on a 3-month placement!
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11/09/2017
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Congratulations to everyone involved in the recent publication in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.!
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04/09/2017
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Welcome to Jacopo Cerbini who starts his PhD in the group!
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01/09/2017
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Prof. Murphy will be presenting at the European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR), which takes place in Durham between 3rd-8th September 2017.
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10/08/2017
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Farewell to Rachel Kutzner who joined the group as part of the CREATE programme from Carroll University, USA. We wish her all the best for the future!
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18/07/2017
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Prof. Murphy presented work on the 'redox processes with organic reagents' at the 8th Pacific Symposium on Radical Chemistry (PSRC-8) in Brisbane, Australia. Andrew and Giuseppe also attended the conference, where they presented their posters.
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14/07/2017
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Prof. Murphy presented work on 'superelectrophiles in the absence of protic acids' at the Perspective on Synthetic Organic Chemistry 2 conference at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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11/07/2017
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Jacopo Cerbini (starting September 2017) and Jack Roberts (starting October 2017) will join the group as PhD students. Jack will be based at GSK.
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06/07/2017
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Well done to Joshua Barham for being selected as one of the 45 finalists (from about 550 submissions) for the 2017 Reaxys PhD Prize! Joshua will present his work at the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium at Shanghai on 19th and 20th of October 2017. We wish him all the best!
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28/06/17
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Congratulations to Katie Emery who passed her PhD viva today with Prof. David Procter of the University of Manchester. She has started a new job at Syngenta. We wish her all the best for the future!
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30/05/2017
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Welcome to Rachel Kutzner, who has joined the group as part of the CREATE programme at Carroll University, USA!
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09/05/2017
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Prof. Murphy delivered the Charles Rees Lecture and received the Charles Rees Award for Heterocyclic Chemistry at the 23rd Lakeland Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry at Grasmere. He wore a special bow tie for the lecture which recalls Charles Rees, who usually wore a bow tie. It is one of 4 such ties that were dyed with the orginal sample of Mauveine prepared by Perkin in 1856.
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08/05/2017
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Farewell to Mr. Taiki Yokoi, a visiting PhD student from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan. We wish him all the best for the future!
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01/05/2017
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Welcome to Matthew Gray who joins the group as a PhD student. He will be based at GSK.
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28/04/2017
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Prof. Murphy was the keynote speaker at the Young Chemists 2017 (YC17) held at Imperial College London. His talk was on 'redox processes with organic reagents'.
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30/03/2017
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15/03/2017
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Well done to Joshua Barham for winning the Strathclyde Gavin S Forsyth Prize!
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13/03/2017
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Congratulations to Sam Dalton for being awarded the Bronze Prize at the 2017 SET for Britain's poster competition for his poster on "Challenging Paradigms: Discovery of the First Selective, Irreversible Inhibitors of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Delta."
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