Category: 2016
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Our paper characterising VHL inhibitor VH298 as novel chemical probe of the hypoxia signalling pathway is now published in Nature Communications. Read our open access article. Access VH298 from the Chemical Probes portal. Related Links Article…
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Congratulations to Alessio for being promoted to Professor (Chair) from 1st October 2016. Alessio Ciulli, Vicki Cowling, Sonia Rocha, Helen Walden and Sarah Coulthurst were all successful in being promoted during this year’s round of Academic…
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Alessio’s News & Views article titled “Target validation: Switching domains” is now published in Nat Chem Biol. Read the news and views article. Read the “Sensitivity and engineered resistance of myeloid leukemia cells to BRD9 inihibition”…
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Alessio has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Dr Alessio Ciulli, from the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, in the School of Life Sciences at the University of…
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Collaboration aims to develop PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeric molecules (PROTACs) – a new therapeutic modality that is able to degrade proteins playing a central role in disease processes PROTACs and their new mechanism of action are expected…
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Our review on advanced chemical genetics for epigenetics is now published in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology! Well done Andrew, Kwok-Ho and Michael! Read our review open access. Review synopsis In conventional chemical genetics, cell-active small-molecules…
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Alessio Ciulli is designated as the winner of the 2016 MedChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship. Learn more about the MedChemComm award. Alessio delivered his Prize lecture at the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry International Symposium on Medicinal…
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Our review on selectivity of chemical probes targeting bromodomains is now published in Future Medicinal Chemistry. Read our open access review without restriction .
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HFSP Matters: An HFSP fellowship that sowed the seeds for PROTAC drug development. by Alessio Ciulli In 2009, Alessio Ciulli was awarded an HFSP Short-Term Fellowship1 to support his 3-month research visit to Yale University to start…
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Alessio Ciulli is awarded the 7th Capps Green Zomaya Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Alessio Ciulli of the University of Dundee has been named the winner of a major award from the Royal…