{"id":901,"date":"2023-11-17T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=901"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:20:10","slug":"group-individuals-achievements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/group-individuals-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Group individuals achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Honour student\u00a0Anna Geyer<\/strong>\u00a0received a 1st class honours and an A for her dissertation, and in addition was awarded three prizes by the University this year:
\n1) Biological Chemistry Honours Prize: Best honours student in biological chemistry
\n2)\u00a0Evelyn Gow Research Fund: Awarded annually to first class hons lady student in chemistry
\n3)\u00a0Wishart Memorial Bequest: Bequested from Mrs W J Wishart\u2019s Estate \u2013 expressed a student studying chemistry should receive prize<\/p>\n

Former group members News and achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Matt Baud<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the School of Chemistry of the University of Southampton<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Matt Baud<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded the BACR Roger Griffin Prize for Cancer Drug Discovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Morgan Gadd<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed as Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Emil Bulatov<\/strong>\u00a0established the Chemical Biology Group in 2015 at Kazan Federal University
\nFind out more about Emil\u2019 research group\u00a0on the KPFU website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Carles Galdeano<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed Serra Hunter Lecturer Professor at the University of Barcelona
\nhttps:\/\/www.ub.edu\/tpdlab\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Andrea Testa<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Scott Hughes<\/strong>\u00a0appointed Head of Chemistry and Head of Biology, respectively, at\u00a0Amphista therapeutics<\/a>. They are now in the roles of\u00a0Director of Exploratory Chemistry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Director of Exploratory Biology<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Pedro Soares<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. Read more\u00a0about the grant on the Porto website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Carles Galdeano<\/strong>\u00a0was the recipient of the \u201c2019 Young Investigator Award\u201d sponsored by Molecules (MDPI).<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chiara Maniaci<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded a UK BBSRC Discovery Fellowship, starting October 2020.
\nRead more about the Fellowship\u2019s cohort\u00a0on the BBSRC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Fleur Ferguson<\/strong>\u00a0was appointed as the William A. Lee Assistant Professor in the\u00a0Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry<\/a>, and the\u00a0Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/a>\u00a0at UC San Diego, starting January 2021.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Will Farnaby<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed group leader and Principal Investigator at Dundee\u2019s CeTPD. See news\u00a0on the University of Dundee website.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Andrea Testa<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded the\u00a02022 Talented Young Italians in the UK\u2019s award<\/a>\u00a0for Research and Innovation,\u00a0from the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK. See Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Chiara Maniaci<\/strong>\u00a0has been appointed group leader and Principal Investigator at the Dundee\u2019s MRC-PPU. See news article on the University of Dundee website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Francesca Ester<\/strong>\u00a0joins the Francis Crick institute<\/a> as a Group Leader to study proteolytic complexes of different pathogenic bacteria and to enable the discovery of new antibiotics by targeted protein degradation.<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nikolai Makukhin<\/strong>\u00a0invited speaker at the RSC Perkin Meeting in January 2020<\/p>\n

Andrea Testa<\/strong>\u00a0invited speaker at the\u00a0PROTACs and Beyond<\/a>\u00a0symposium in London on 9 March 2020<\/p>\n

William Farnaby<\/strong>\u00a0invited speaker a talk at the Digital Workshop \u201cDrug Discovery: Targeted Protein Degradation\u201d sponsored by Promega in June 2020. Read more\u00a0on the Oxford Global website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nicole Ong<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded several Life Sciences Prizes 2019\/20:<\/p>\n