Group Members
2006-2007 MChem Student
Sian Jones
Project: Synthesis of enantiomerically pure bicyclic N-heterocycles
2007 Erasmus Student
Marlene Testud
Project: Chemoenzymatic synthesis of trans-2,6-disubstituted pyrrolidines
2007 Erasmus Student
Jeanna Cederstrom
Project: Desymmetrisation of meso-3,4-disubstituted pyrrolidines
2007- 2010 Ph.D. Student
Andrea March
Project: Developing chemoenzymatic and generic routes to chiral tertiary alcohols
2008 Erasmus Student
Jean-Christophe Plouseau
Project: Desymmetrisation of meso-3,4-disubstituted pyrrolidines
2008-2011 Ph.D. Student
Saurabh Prabhu
Project: Determining the effect of novel compounds, in an in vitro chemo-sensitivity system, for the treatment of glioma
2008-2011 Ph.D. Student
Gunasekar Monoharan
Project: Beneficial effects and cellular mechanism of action of Momordica Charantia in the treatment of glioma cancer
2009 Nuffield Bursary student
Zaheer Akbar
Project: Developing new methods for the the α-arylation of carbonyl compounds
2009 URIS Summer Internship
Brendan Fraser
Project: Catalytic Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Important Amides
2010-2016 Part-time Ph.D. Student
Shakil Patel
Project: Designing and synthesising novel diagnostic probes to detect over-expressed enzymes in disease