Project 1: Transforming Cyclic Peptides by Catenation, for Enhanced Lipophilicity, Stability and Cell Permeability The Francis Crick Institute in United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Research Assistant opportunity in synthetic medicinal chemistry / chemical biology at the University of Dundee , within the Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) and the CONTROL-MITO team. The project focuses on designing, synthesising, and characterising novel chemical probes to induce protein–protein proximity in the mitochondrial matrix. The work sits in an interdisciplinary network involving the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, and includes collab...

PhD opportunity at the Technical University of Munich in the Boekhoven lab for a project at the intersection of peptide chemistry , synthetic biology , and supramolecular chemistry . The position focuses on designing and engineering peptides and proteins that self-assemble into functional nano-machines such as motors and pumps for synthetic cells. The lab environment offers access to in-house peptide synthesis and characterization infrastructure, with a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting s...

A fully funded 48-month PhD position is available at the Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC) in La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain, within the Molecular Sciences department. The project sits at the interface of organic chemistry, biochemistry, and supramolecular chemistry. The successful candidate will work on controlling bioorthogonal reactions through mechanical bonding using rotaxanes. The research involves synthesizing interlocked molecules and their non-interlocked ana...

University of Oxford is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Inorganic Chemistry based in Oxford, United Kingdom, in the Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. The project is in molecular lanthanide chemistry and focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of molecular lanthanide complexes to develop physical inorganic principles for controlling optical linewidths and oscillator strengths . The work includes ligand design and synthesis, lanthanide complexation and...

University of Cambridge is advertising 2 fixed-term Post-Doctoral Research Associate positions in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry , working with the Gaunt Group under Professor Matthew Gaunt . The project is centered on synthetic chemistry and organic chemistry , with a focus on designing and developing catalytic activation modes that enable new synthetic transformations. The role is aimed at researchers interested in catalyst-controlled reactivity, expanding accessible chemical space, ...