News and Events
Dr Greg Wildgoose and the world's first calibration-free, solid-state pH meter
Senova Systems, a Californian spin-off company based on pH sensing technology co-invented by Dr Wildgoose (School of Chemistry, UEA), has announced the release of it's first generation of...
Funding boost for femtochemistry at UEA
Chemical bonds are formed or broken incredibly quickly – on the femtosecond (one million billionth of a second) time scale. Femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in real time, provides...
Fresh insights into programmed cell death
Apoptosis is the biologically regulated suicide program used by irreparably damaged, genetically modified or obsolete cells for their safe self-removal, the malfunctioning of which has severe...
Hand-held drug testing prototype launched
The world's first prototype of a hand-held fingerprint drug testing device has been created by University of East Anglia spin-out company Intelligent Fingerprinting. The unique device detects...
Leverhulme Trust support for multidisciplinary nanochemistry project
Manfred Bochmann, Andrew Cammidge, Yimin Chao and Greg Wildgoose have received 3 years funding from the Leverhulme Trust to support a multi-disciplinary project aimed at constructing new materials...
Transatlantic award for microbiology student
PhD student Daniel Tromans has received the Heatley-Payne Award from the Society of General Microbiology, which has allowed him to travel to the US to carry out a short research visit and present...
David Andrews writes for the American Physical Society
David Andrews, Professor of Chemical Physics at UEA, has written an invited Viewpoint in 'Physics', the American Physical Society publication that publishes expert opinion on exceptional research....
A successful Chemistry Research Colloquium
What do photodynamic therapy, tailored nanoparticles and antibiotic synthesis have in common? They were a few of the topics discussed at the 2011 Chemistry Research Colloquium held on Tuesday 12...
Drug driving test at your fingertips
A fingerprint is all you need to determine whether someone is under the influence of drugs. Paul Yates from Intelligent Fingerprinting, a company spun out from the University of East Anglia...
Putting sunshine in the tank
Scientists from the University of East Anglia are working on how to use the energy of the sun to make fuels, which could help to solve the world’s escalating energy crisis.
Lectureship for Dr Garth Jones
The School of Chemistry is delighted with the appointment of Dr Garth Jones to a new lectureship. Garth is a physical chemist whose research uses a variety of computational and theoretical...
UEA spin out gets significant funding
University of East Anglia scientists who found a way to identify illegal drug use and a person’s identity simultaneously through a simple fingerprint test have secured £300,000 of investment to...
Early Years Researchers' Colloquium @ UEA
The Centre for Molecular and Structural Biochemistry (www.cmsb.eu) will hold its inaugural Early Years Researchers’ Colloquium at UEA. The Colloquium will be held on the afternoon of ...
"Hot Article" for Dr Vasily Oganesyan
A paper by Dr Vasily Oganesyan and co-workers has been selected as a Hot Article by Faraday Discussions. A paper by Dr Vasily Oganesyan and co-workers ( Faraday Discuss. 2011, 148,...
Head of Chemistry publication ranks in all time top 40
Prof. Manfred Bochmann (Head of Chemistry) is ranking third in the all time "Top 40" cited papers to mark 40 years of Dalton Transactions. Click here to view the top 10 on the Dalton website...
"Hot Article" for Professor Page
A paper by Prof Phil Page and collaborators has been selected as an Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Hot Article. The group discovered a systematic error in HPLC measurements of the...
Intelligent Fingerprinting shortlisted for award
The shortlisted candidates for the Times Higher Education Awards 2010, unveiled today, include the CHE spin-off Intelligent Fingerprinting, headed by Professor David Russell. Founded in 2009,...
Molecular Interactions at the Interface between Chemistry and Biology
A Royal Society of Chemistry sponsored regional one day Workshop, to be held at UEA on Thursday Sept 23 2010, will focus on the extensive range of research at chemistry-biology interface going on...
Prominent feature for Prof David Andrews' research team
Professor David Andrews and his post-doctoral associate Dr David Bradshaw are currently featured on the Newsroom front page of the International Society for Optical Engineering website, for their...
Research by Dr Vasily Oganesyan receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust
Faculty member Dr Vasily Oganesyan has been awarded a research grant by the Leverhulme Trust entitled: “Molecular Dynamics and EPR spectroscopy: new structural tools for biology”. Molecular...