I’m delighted to share the news that I’m now a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow! Absolutely cannot wait to start work designing force fields for biomolecular modelling and drug discovery. Thank you to colleagues at Newcastle University, as well as my brilliant group, project partners and collaborators. PDRA and RSE positions in force field and software design will be opening soon – get in touch if interested in joining our journey.

Many congratulations to the brilliant Lauren Nelson for winning best presentation at the School of Natural & Environmental Sciences postgraduate conference for her talk on force fields & computer-aided drug design! In collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

We are delighted that our collaboration with the Jorgensen lab, “Computation of Protein-Ligand Binding Free Energies using Quantum Mechanical Bespoke Force Fields“, has been accepted in MedChemComm as part of the New Talent in Medicinal Chemistry themed collection.

Josh’s preprint is now available on ChemRxiv: “QUBEKit: Automating the Derivation of Force Field Parameters from Quantum Mechanics”. See our webpage on QUantum mechanical BEspoke force field design for more details.

Welcome to Chris Ringrose who joins us from the University of Leicester to start a Ph.D. on molecular mechanics force fields for computer-aided drug design.