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 using cutting‑edge chemical and biological tools. This work is crucial for improving therapeutic proteins and uncovering fundamental biological mechanisms.
23/01/2026c
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 glycosylated amino acids.
Welcome to the lab Maia!
04/07/2025
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 stereochemical effects on glycosylation reactions. Welcome Tess!
30/06/2025
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
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 the Chemical Biology Symposium: Spotlight on Women in the North East. Felicity was one of the organisers for the event, Ella presented a poster and won a prize (again!) and Tom was part of a panel dicussion on supporting women in STEM. More details about the event here
23/05/2025
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
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
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 RSC Chemical Biology. A milestone for the group.
07/05/2025
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
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