November 2009

Renephra Ltd. scoops two awards! Dialysis replacement technology spin-out Renephra Ltd won the first prizes in the North West NHS Innovation Awards medical devices category and at the Bionow North West Biomedical Awards in the emerging technology category. medical devices category and at the Bionow North West Biomedical Awards in the emerging technology category. The Manchester based company is co-directed by Prof Ulijn. Dr Todd works with Renephra as a research scientist.

March 2009

A new Ulijn group paper has been published in Small describing a method for controlling the solubility of carbon nanotubes by enzymes. Read more about this new use for Fmoc dipeptides here. The account is illustrated by an inside cover as seen here.

March 2009

A new Soft Matter paper has been published reporting on improved protease sensitive beads for enchanced response under physiological conditions. You can read the paper itself here, and Chemical Biology's comment here.

January 2009

Nature Nanotechnology paper published. You can find our paper on enzyme-catalysed reactions driving self-assembly here and a News & Views article by Sijbren Otto discussing the work here.