Siddique Amin

🌟 Farewell and Best of Luck @siddamin! 🌟 We will miss your positive energy and team spirit, and wish you success in your new role as Senior Scientist in Peptide Chemistry at AstraZeneca! Thank you for all your hard work and the wonderful memories. #NewBeginnings

🎉 Congratulations to Siddique Amin (@siddamin) on passing his #PhDViva! Well done for all your hard work, and a big thank you to Siddique’s examiners Chris Coxon and Ian Hardcastle. We're excited to see what the future holds. 🌟 #PhD #Achievement #TeamSuccess #Congratulations

Researchers attended #RICT2024 in Bordeaux. Akane Kawamura gave a talk on cyclic #peptides and PhD Students @siddamin & @FilomenaSaulino presented posters on their work. A fantastic experience in a charming city, networking with other chemical biologists from around the globe!

@GpcReid @ColeGroupNCL @EnamineLtd @KawamuraGroup Thank you for your question. Yes, I agree that the concentrations tested are quite high but this was necessary due to the low level of inhibition. To look for any background interference, we had a no-enzyme control at each concentration here, and no interference was observed

📢 New preprint: "Active learning driven prioritisation of compounds from on-demand libraries targeting the SARS-CoV-2 main protease" by @ChemCree @bieniekmat in collaboration with @siddamin @KawamuraGroup Now out in @ChemRxiv! doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Kawamura Research and McAllister Lab chemical biologists had a team day in Durham combining dragon-boat racing, skills dev, and a surprise encounter with Matt Baker! Thanks Adventure Access & @Sage_NCL People Fund for helping make this day out possible. @ChemistryNCL @McAllisTom

Starting our first session for the 2024 @RSC_CBBG postgrad symposium is Thomas Smith, a 3rd year PhD from Newcastle University, on engineering potent cyclic peptides

Congratulations to our prize winners for the best pitch of a PhD project as part of our ideation process. Thank-you to @Quotient_Sci for kindly sponsoring the prize. And to Stephen Byard for presenting it. Well done Katie Dowell of @Cobb_Group, @siddamin and @Anderson__Matt

Yesterday we were delighted to host Prof Hiroaki Suga from @UTokyo_News_en, who delivered a fantastic talk on pseudo-natural #peptides, products and NeoBiologics, as a @ChemistryNCL seminar. Many thanks for visiting @UniofNewcastle and meeting our students & researchers!

Last month I participated in a fantastic outreach event at @scienceatlife, led by @MosmedC researchers. Connecting with families on microbiology, drug design, and chemistry through hands-on experiments was a blast! Big thanks to all organisers for making it happen!

And that’s a wrap thank you so much to our fabulous researchers who gave up their time to take part in our @MosmedC Outreach event. And thank you so much to the fantastic Ben and @scienceatlife for having us! @DurhamChemistry @DurBiol @ChemistryNCL @SciencesNCL @UniofNewcastle

Come and meet @MosmedC doctoral researchers at @scienceatlife tomorrow and try some fun learning experiments! Entry 10am-5pm, details here: research.ncl.ac.uk/mosmed/impact/…… @EPSRC @NCL_MedChem @SciencesNCL @Durham_BSI @DurhamChemistry

Our final #ChemSciCovers🎨 this week features @tdwclaridge, @KawamuraGroup et al.'s recent article 🤩 Cyclic peptides target the aromatic cage of a PHD-finger reader domain to modulate epigenetic protein function 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… 📌 @ChemistryNCL | @OxfordChemistry

Check out our work on cyclic peptides targeting PHD-fingers featured @ChemicalScience #ChemSciCovers! Fantastic collaboration @tdwclaridge @chembiohub @AstraZeneca Special congrats to @O_D_C. @ERC_Research @OxfordSynthesis @OxfordChemistry @ChemistryNCL rsc.li/44yY6uK

We have a very exciting event coming up @scienceatlife on Saturday 29 July! Come along and learn all about the marvellous world of molecules and medicines from our brilliant researchers through fun and interactive activities! 👇👇👇 life.org.uk/whats-on/event…

Our #team enjoying the sunshine in Leazes Park Newcastle last Friday, to celebrate all the hard work the #chembio group has put in over the last few months and Prof Akane Kawamura being awarded the Jeremy Knowles Award (RSC Prize). #fridayfun #researchers

Absolutely thrilled & honoured to be awarded the #RSCPrizes Jeremy Knowles Award @RoySocChem! Many thanks to my incredible team, collaborators & colleagues over the years, and funders for supporting my research.

Prof Akane Kawamura (@KawamuraGroup) has been awarded the Jeremy Knowles Award for the development and application of cutting-edge technologies and chemical probes to study and modulate therapeutically important biological processes #RSCprizes

Congratulations to Tom Smith for winning the prize for best poster at the 2023 MoSMed Conference! This prize was kindly sponsored by @AstraZeneca #mosmed23

Had a great time at the annual @MosmedC conference talking about my work and also hearing about all of the amazing science being done within the CDT. Dinner at St James' Park stadium was a nice treat too! #mosmed23 @KawamuraGroup