Welcome to the

Conway Group

 
 

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  3. •May 2015: Congratulations to Sam who won a prize for his talk at the RSC CBBC Post-graduate Symposium in Bristol.

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  5. •March 2015: Stuart has been invited to join the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) Advisory Board.

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  7. •February 2015: Congratulations to Lingbing whose work on the synthesis of deuterated hopanoids, a collaboration with the Newman Lab at Caltech, has been accepted for publication in Geobiology.

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  9. •January 2015: Stuart is guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on “Novel therapeutics targeting epigenetics”. Read the editorial here.

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  11. •January 2015: Collaborative work with the Holmes group, conducted by Mark Gregory during a visit to Oxford, has been published in the Australian Journal of Chemistry issue dedicated to Sir John Cornforth.

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  13. •December 2014: Congratulations to Tim Rooney and Diane Swallow for passing their DPhil vivas.

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  15. •October 2014: We are delighted to welcome Charles Evans and Sarah Collins to the group as DPhil students.

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  17. •October 2014: We are delighted to welcome Candise Cai, Sophie Willis and Jay Bassan to the group as Part II students.

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  19. •September 2014: Congratulations to Laura who won the Roche Public’s Choice Prize for her talk at the EFMC 1st Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium.

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  21. •May 2014: Tim’s paper on CREBBP bromodomain inhibitors is online here.

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  23. •April 2014: Congratulations to Tim whose work on CREBBP bromodomain inhibitors has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.

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  25. •March 2014: Congratulations to Jess Healy and Sam Grayer whose collaborative work with colleagues in Aberdeen has been published in Biochemistry. Read more here.

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  27. •February 2014: Laura, Brian and Angie’s review on bromodomain inhibitors in Future Medicinal Chemistry is online here.

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  29. •January 2014: We have a 4 year DPhil studentship available funded by the BBSRC and Novartis. See here for more details.

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  31. •January 2013: We have a 3 year DPhil studentship available funded by the CRUK & EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre in Oxford. See here for more details.

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  33. •November 2013: The Conway group are taking part in Movember. You can follow our efforts here. If you would like to sponsor the Conway Group Team, you can do so here.

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  35. •November 2013: We have a Wellcome Trust-funded post-doctoral researcher position available in the group. Details can be found here.

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  37. •October 2013: Stuart has been invited to be a member of the Editorial Board for Organic Chemistry Frontiers.

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  39. •October 2013: We welcome Alex, Amelie and Michael to the group who have started as DPhil students.

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  41. •October 2013: We welcome Abbey, Calvin, Katie and Maya who have started in the group as Part II students.

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  43. •July 2013: Congratulations to Liam who won the best poster prize at the Department of Oncology post-graduate symposium.

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  45. •April 2013: Congratulations to Cindy, Diane, Sam and Liam whose collaborative work with the Hammond group has been accepted for publication in ACS Chemical Biology. Read the just accepted manuscript here.


  1. •April 2013: Congratulations to David, who was awarded a DPhil poster prize at the Oxford Cancer Research Centre meeting.

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  3. •March 2013: Congratulations to David, whose work on BET bromodomain inhibitors has been accepted for publication in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Read the just accepted manuscript here.

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  5. •March 2013: Congratulations to Tim Rooney who won the Bronze Medal in the 2013 SET for Britain Chemistry section at the Houses of Parliament.

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  7. •March 2013: Our 2011 paper on bromodomain inhibitors has been recognised as highly cited by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

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  9. •January 2013: Stuart has been invited to be a member of the International Scientific Committee for the 23rd EMFC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2014.

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  11. •January 2013: The lab has been profiled in MedChemWatch here.

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  13. •November 2012: Congratulations to Aine, who passed her DPhil viva.

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  15. •September 2012: We welcome new DPhil students Sam, Angie and Liam and new Part II students Andrew, Tim and Amy.


  1. •August 2012: Our J. Med. Chem. perspective on the development and application bromodomains ligands is available as a Just Accepted Manuscript here.

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  3. •August 2012: Our collaborative Med. Chem. Commun. article on the development of bromodomains ligands is online here.

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  5. •August 2012: Our ACS Med. Chem. Lett. Viewpoint Article is online here.

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  7. •May 2012: Our MedChemComm review article on phosphate bioisosteres is available as an accepted article here.

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  9. •May 2012: Congratulations to Tom Elliott, Aine and Yulin whose review on phosphate bioisosteres has been accepted for publication in MedChemComm.

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  11. •April 2012: In recognition of the group’s work, Stuart has been designated as the winner of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia. This prestigious prize has been established to acknowledge and recognise an outstanding young medicinal chemist working in academia in Europe. The prize will be presented at the XXIInd International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Berlin.

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  13. •April 2012: Stuart has been awarded Junior Scientists Participation Program Fellowship to attend the 47th Burgenstock Conference on Stereochemistry. He will present the group’s work on the development of bromodomain inhibitors.

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  15. •April 2012: Congratulations to Tim, who won the David Kelly prize for the best poster at the RSC Bioorganic Group Post-graduate Meeting in Cardiff. See Tim collecting his prize here.

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  17. •February 2012: A post-doctoral position is available as part of the NICHE EU Initial Training Network. This position is now closed.

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  19. •February 2012: An EPSRC-funded DPhil studentship starting in October 2012 is available in the Hammond and Conway groups. This position is now closed.

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  21. •January 2012: CR-UK-funded post-doctoral position in the group is available. More details are available here. This position is now closed.

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  23. •January 2012: Our Chem. Commun. paper on wavelength orthogonal photolysis of glutamate and GABA has been highlighted by Chemistry & Industry here.

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  25. •December 2011: Our inside front cover for Chem. Commun. has been published here. The associated article is here.

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  27. •December 2011: Congratulations to David, who won the best talk prize for his presentation on the development of inhibitors of the BET bromodomain-histone interaction, at the 5th RSC Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector Postgraduate Symposium at the University of Cambridge. See Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, presenting the prize here.

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  29. •December 2011: Congratulations to Tim, who won a prize for his poster on the development of inhibitors for histone-bromodomain interactions, at the 5th RSC Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector Postgraduate Symposium at the University of Cambridge. See Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, presenting the prize here.

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  31. •November 2011: Eleven PhD studentships and two post-doctoral positions are available in the European Marie Curie Initial Training Network entitled ‘Network for Integrated Cellular Homeostasis’ (NICHE). Details are available here. It is envisaged that the position in the Conway group will commence in July 2012. Please contact Dr Conway for informal enquiries.

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  33. •October 2011: Our recent paper in J. Med. Chem. on 3,5-dimethylisoxazole acetyl-lysine mimics has been highlighted in Faculty of 1000 here.

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  35. •October 2011: Our work on wavelength-orthogonal photolysis has been published online in Chem. Commun. here.

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  37. •October 2011: We welcome Brian, Cindy, Laura and Michelle to the group as first year DPhil students.

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  39. •October 2011: We welcome Lukass, Natalie, Niall and Paul to the group as Part II students.

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  41. •September 2011: Congratulations to Megan, whose work on wavelength-orthogonal photolysis of glutamate and GABA on neurons has been accepted for publication in Chem. Commun.

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  43. •September 2011: A post-doctoral position in the group focusing on the synthesis of molecular probes for bacterial systems is available from July 2012. Please see the vacancies page for details.

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  45. •August 2011: Congratulations to David, whose collaborative work with the Structural Genomics Consortium, has been accepted for publication in J. Med. Chem. Read more about his 3,5-dimethylisoxazole acetyl-lysine mimics here.

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  47. •July 2011: Jess’ Journal of Bacteriology paper is available as a preprint here.

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  49. •July 2011: Congratulations to Kirsty, whose review has been published in Biochem. Soc. Trans. Read more here.

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  51. •May 2011: Congratulations to Jess, whose work has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Bacteriology.

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  53. •April 2011: Congratulations to Aine, who won the prize for the best poster at the RSC Bioorganic Group post-graduate meeting, held at Burlington House in London.

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  55. •February 2011: A video of Kirsty talking about her work on Alzheimer’s disease is available on the Alzheimer’s Research Trust webpage here.

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  57. •January 2011: Congratulations to Jess, who has passed her PhD viva.

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  59. •January 2011: Congratulations to Tim, who was awarded a prize for his DTC project conducted in the group.


  1. •December 2010: Our PNAS paper has been featured in the University of Oxford Science Blog and the University of Aberdeen website.


  1. •November 2010: Congratulations to Jess, whose work is published in PNAS here.

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  3. •October 2010: Congratulations to Megan who has passed her DPhil viva.

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  5. •October 2010: Stuart has been appointed as a member of the Parkinson’s UK Research Advisory Panel.

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  7. •October 2010: Our invited contribution to the “Emerging Investigators” issue of Chemical Communications is available online here.

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  9. •October 2010: Our ACS Chemical Biology paper is available online here.

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  11. •October 2010: We welcome back Jess and Megan who are staying in the group as post-docs.

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  13. •October 2010: We welcome new DPhil students Diane, David and Tim and new Part II students Jenny, Mike and Sam. Find out more about them here.

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