The SAAWK conference 2017
Young Chemists Symposium 2017
On the 3rd of October Divan van Greunen, Nicole Neyt and Valerie Ramoatsoa joined other postgraduates from across the SACI North region to participate in the annual SACI North Young Chemists Symposium. Our team did us proud with Divan being awarded 1st prize in the doctoral presentation category for his talk on exploring chemical space …
2017 Graduations
Congratulations to Nicole Neyt and Johan van der Westhuizen on their cum lauda masters graduations.  
New Paper – Targeting Alzheimer’s disease by investigating previously unexplored chemical space surrounding the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil.
A new paper from our drug discovery team has been published in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry detailing the identification of novel analogues of the cholinesterase inhibitor Donepezil for the potential treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Congratulations to Divan van Greunen who was the lead chemist on the research reported. You can read the article …
Frank Warren Conference 2016
The research team attended the 14th Frank Warren conference hosted at Rhodes University in Grahamstown from the 4th to 8th of December. The Frank Warren conference is the South African Chemical Institutes (SACI) premium organic chemistry conference covering all areas branches of organic chemistry. Professor Charles De Koning (University of the Witwatersrand) gave the Frank …
