Dr Andrew Jamieson who joined the chemistry department as a lecturer in August has been awarded a Royal Society Research Grant. A specialist in the synthesis of biomimetics, Dr Jamieson has established a collaboration with Dr Shaun Cowley (Department of Biochemistry) to investigate the substrate specificity of Lysine deacetylase (KDAC) enzymes which are implicated in the growth of cancer cells. The grant will provide state of the art equipment for Dr Jamieson’s laboratory.