All Medicinal chemistry articles
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Job profileScientific leader
Richard uses digital technologies to design and select compounds for new medicines.
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Feature
The science behind emergency oxygen
How chemistry provides oxygen for breathing in emergency situations
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CPD
Teaching organic synthesis at post-16
Use these ideas and tips to help students master this tricky topic
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Job profile
Qualified Person, pharmaceuticals
Jill ensures that the medicines her client companies provide to the public comply with quality and safety standards and are fit for purpose.
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Job profile
Person cymhwysol, fferylliaeth
Mae Jill yn sicrhau bod y meddyginiaethau y mae ei chwmnïau cleient yn eu darparu i’r cyhoedd yn cydymffurfio â safonau ansawdd a diogelwch a’u bod yn addas i’r diben.
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Ideas
Teach justice and cooperation through chemistry
Link forensic science and the Covid-19 pandemic to your lessons on instrumental analysis, separation techniques, data interpretation and health with UN sustainable development goals 16 and 17
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Ideas
Tackle poverty in chemistry lessons
Link the science you teach in your classroom to poverty and inequality targeted by the UN’s SDGs
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Ideas
Chemists’ role in the fight against disease
Use these tips and resources to link UN sustainable development goal 3 and biology topics on health and disease to your lessons on anticancer drugs
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Feature
Designing cancer drugs
How screening is used to develop targeted therapies that improve the lives of cancer patients
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Soundbite
Polymer chemistry is printing noses
Learn more about a novel application of polymer chemistry to help reconstruct the faces of skin cancer patients
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CPD
Teaching acids and bases post-16
Try these tips, ideas and activities to help you teach this topic
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Soundbite
Battle of the hand sanitisers
Are quaternary ammonium compounds just as good at killing Covid-19 as alcohols?
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News
Nanoparticle starves cancer cells of copper
Start your lesson with this starter slide on one medicinal application of nanotechnology
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Soundbite
Will doggy detectors sniff out Covid-19?
How canines might help to find asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases of the coronavirus
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Feature
Can UV light help tackle the coronavirus?
Engage students with some highly topical cross-curricular science
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Resource
How is UV light used as a disinfectant?
Boost students’ literacy skills with some engaging cross-curricular science
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Feature
4D printing: the next dimension in healthcare?
Use this novel concept to teach students about natural polymers, programmable materials and chemistry in medicine
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Resource
Polymers, 4D bioprinting and bioinks
Use the topic of 4D printing and bioinks to teach students about polymers
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Interview
‘A material that could heal itself was the coolest thing I’d ever heard’
Meet Annela Seddon, a research scientist who designs materials able to self-fold on demand for biomedical applications
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Interview
‘We’re interested in using that same concept to make surfaces antiviral’
Meet Mark Moloney, an organic chemist who spends his time pondering surfaces and hunting antibiotics
