Teams
Ferrier is made up of six science teams. These broadly focus on the areas described below however we have a flexible matrix structure where projects are resouced from across the institute based on available time and capability needs.
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Team Rendle
Analytical & applied chemistry
Custom synthesis, process development. Natural product isolation and identification. Runs NMR facility, GlycoFineChem and builds bespoke equipment and software.
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Team Harris
Synthetic chemistry
Synthesis of novel nucleoside based antivirals and antibacterials and bile acid derivatives.
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Team Hinkley
Natural products
Isolation, characterization, and modification of complex polysaccharides in human health, and their modification to make new biopolymers for use as commodities.
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Team Lamiable-Oulaidi
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Rare disorder research focusing on lysosomal storage disorders. Design and synthesis of potent enzyme inhibitors via enzyme/substrate transition state analysis.
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Team Painter
mRNA and lipid nanoparticles
Design and synthesis of vaccine adjuvants and ionisable lipids and subsequent use in vaccines and immunotherapeutics.
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Team Parker
Synthetic and chemical biology
Using natural biosynthetic machinery to generate valuable products, and computation and experiment to study molecular details of protein communication networks.