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
4th Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Drs Will Unsworth and Martin Fascione
Peptide ring expansion chemistry
Seb Grant
3rd Year York Graduate Research School PhD, co-supervised with Dr Dave Boucher
Identification of caspase substrates
Laura Gherman
4th Year BBSRC iCASE PhD, co-supervised with Dr Michael Plevin
Stabilising protein scaffolds
James Kleppen
4th Year BBSRC White Rose DTP PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Luke Mackinder and Dr Michael Plevin
Chemical modification of algal proteins
Gabriella Holland
3rd Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Dave Smith
Self-healing hydrogels
Lucy Anderson
3rd Year Discovery Medicine North DTP, co-supervised with Drs Martin Fascione and Bill Grey
Therapeutics for multiple myeloma
Rebecca Charlton
2nd Year EPSRC studentship, co-supervised with Prof. Dave Smith
Patterning dynamic supramolecular gels
Sam Brown
1st Year EPSRC (CSHP CDT) and Ineos Oxford Institute, co-supervised with Dr Chris Spicer, Prof. Will Unsworth, Prof. Martin Fascione, Prof. Chris Schofield
Bioconjugation with ring expansion
Rosanna Poll
1st Year Discovery Medicine North DTP, co-supervised with Dr Ines Hahn and Dr Ryan West
Targeting GSK-3β in Alzheimer’s disease
Postdocs
Ksenia Stankevich
Leverhulme Trust funded
Metal-mediated protein modification
Joe Nabarro
Welcome Trust funded
Bioactive hydrogels
Phathu Masithi
University of York IAA funded
Photo-reactive peptides
Masters students
Laura McSweeney
MChem student
Peptide stapling
Dan Warren
MChem student
Protein expression for multiple myeloma
MRes
Amelia Rees
MRes student co-supervised with Dr Nick Yates
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 Sophie Coe (2024-2026) Now in Post-Award Grant operations team at University of York
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
Ebteel Al Rawahi (2025-2026)
Ella Thompson (2025-2026)
Evie Burnley (2025-2026)
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)
Sami Somai (2026)