Team
Dr. Chris Spicer
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of York
Member of the York Biomedical Research Institute
PhD Students
Reuben Breetveld
4th Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Paul Genever
Photo-responsive peptides
Owen Hughes
3rd Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Drs Will Unsworth and Martin Fascione
Peptide ring expansion chemistry
Seb Grant
2nd Year York Graduate Research School PhD, co-supervised with Dr Dave Boucher
Identification of caspase substrates
Laura Gherman
3rd Year BBSRC iCASE PhD, co-supervised with Dr Michael Plevin
Stabilising protein scaffolds
James Kleppen
3rd Year BBSRC White Rose DTP PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Luke Mackinder and Dr Michael Plevin
Chemical modification of algal proteins
Gabriella Holland
2nd Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Dave Smith
Self-healing hydrogels
Lucy Anderson
2nd Year Discovery Medicine North DTP, co-supervised with Drs Martin Fascione and Bill Grey
Therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Rebecca Charlton
1st Year EPSRC studentship, co-supervised with Prof. Dave Smith
Patterning dynamic supramolecular gels
Postdocs
Ksenia Stankevich
Leverhulme Trust funded
Metal-mediated protein modification
Phathu Masithi
University of York IAA funded
Therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Sophie Moul
Wellcome Trust funded
Peptide-functionalised materials
Masters students
Ella Thomson
MChem student
Therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Evie Burnley
MChem student
Metal-mediated protein modification
Ebteel Al Rawahi
MChem student
Light-responsive peptide materials
Alumni
PhD students
Lydia Barber (2020-2024) Now PDRA at TU Wien
Laetitia Raynal (2019-2023) Now at Bicycle Therapeutics
Nick Rose (2019-2022) Now PDRA at University of Geneva
Postdocs
Dr Matthew Gill (2022-2023) Now PDRA at University of York
Dr Neil Scott (2021) Now PDRA at University of York
Dr Nico Seling (2020) Now patent attorney at Pearl Cohen
Dr James Donald (2020) Now at PharmEnable
Masters students
Katie Lewis (2024-2025)
Matthew Weatherill (2023-2024)
Alicia Sanz-Maestro (2023-2024) Now PhD at the University of Bath
Perisa Munir (2023-2024)
Angela Ramirez (2022-2023) Now PhD at Universitat de Barcelona
Laurie Hughes (2022-2023) Now PhD at University of Southampton
Eve Tipple (2021-2022) Now PhD at University of Manchester
Tom Phillips (2021-202)
Natalia Swiatek (2020-2021) Now PhD at Imperial College London
Taylor Dixon (2020-2021)
Charis Warnock (2020-2021)
Summer students
Paul Ziegelbauer (2025)