Author Archives: Tom
PhD Studentship available
We have a fully-funded BBSRC NEEDL PhD studentship available to home students to join the group starting in October 2026,in collaboration with our industrial partner Prozomix Limited. *Deadline 5pm 27th February 2026* The project focusses on designing and editing glycans … Continue reading
Welcome Maia
Maia Evans is joing the group as temporary research assistant. Maia is Newcastle Chemistry alumnus having previously carried out her MChem and a summer research project in the Kawamura group.Maia will be expanding the group’s work in chemical glycosylation, synthesising … Continue reading
Welcome Tess
Tess Baker, a 2nd year undergraduate in Medicinal Chemistry at Newcastle University is joining the group for 6 weeks over the summer. Tess will be carrying out a research project funded by the University’s Summer Internship scheme to investigate the … Continue reading
LEAF Silver for the Chem Bio Labs
The Chemical Biology labs have been awarded LEAF Silver, driven by Joanna with the submisison led by members of the Kawamura group. Great work everyone! 25/06/2025
North East Women in Chemical Biology Symposium
As part of the “Inspring Women in Chemical Biology” event series sponsored by the Biochemical Society led by Akane Kawamura and part of the Chemical Biology Special Interest Group at Newcastle University, the lab were proud to be part of … Continue reading
ESBOC 2025
Tom presented some of the group’s work at the European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry in Gregynog. A great few days of science! 02/06/2025
RSC Chemical Biology Symposium
A good showing from the McAllister Lab at the RSC’s Chemical Biology symosium in 2025; Georgi, Ella and Felicity all presented posters with Ella and Felicity also delivering flash presentations. 12/05/2025
Paper
We’ve published our first paper as a research group! We describe a short and economical synthesis of Fmoc-SPPS compatible glycosylated amino acids. Felicity led the project and Becca contributed during her summer studentship. The article is now available online in … Continue reading
MoSMed conference 2025
We had strong representation from the group at the MoSMed conference in 2025 held in Durham. Georgi gave an oral presentation and Ella presented a poster, winning the prize for best poster. Congratulations Ella! 17/04/2025
Tom recognised as an ‘Outstanding reviewer’ for RSC Chemical Biology
23/04/2025