28 | CHEMISTRY AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Research
Many staff have established research groups that investigate a range of areas including chemical
ecology, synthesis and medicinal chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, catalysis and sustainable
materials, porous materials, chemical sensors, catalysis and zeolites.
Our researchers work at the forefront of their discipline and
spend time writing grants and research papers, supervising
postgraduate research students and travelling to conferences.
They also use facilities such as the UK 850 MHz Solid-State
NMR Facility or Diamond, the UK’s national synchrotron science
facility. We also have medicinal chemistry researchers who
collaborate with UK pharmaceutical companies, and Silicon
Valley biotech companies in the USA.
As part of the MChem degrees you are given the opportunity to
undertake a research project under the direct supervision of an
academic member of staff working in the Research Laboratories.
The goal of the project is to contribute research towards a paper
that is published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. In the past
3 years 10 Keele undergraduates have achieved the glory of
seeing their name in print.
In recent years 40-50% of our MChem students have moved on
to higher doctorate research degrees at both other Universities
and Keele.
A sugar nucleotide drug
NATHAN WOOD
MChem STUDENT
A MOF hydrogen storage material
“Feedback from supervisors has developed
both my personal skills and academic skills.
Honestly I think it’s the best year of my life”
A self-assembled
nanowire
Antimalarial drug
A light-harvesting organometallic
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