During my undergraduate degree, people would often ask what course I was studying. Usually the response to "Chemistry with Drug Discovery" was "Chemistry with what?". No, it doesn't involve hunting around with a magnifying glass looking for paracetamol. The drug discovery process is a huge chain of events involving numerous people that gets a medicine …
Where to find a PhD
Everyone is different. Everyone chooses to do a PhD for a variety of reasons. Everyone wants to get different things out of a PhD project. Below is how I decided which projects to apply for. Why a PhD? Before even thinking of applying, you need to be sure you know exactly why you want to …
Reflections on first year
I am coming to the end of my first year at the SDDC and have been thinking a lot about what I’d like to do differently in my second year. I’ve achieved some of the primary aims of my project, but not all of them. This was due to collaborators and things outside my control …
How did I get here?
How does someone end up designing cancer drugs for their PhD project? Well... After deciding not to pursue a music career while at high school, I needed to rethink my options. Chemistry had become more interesting once I started studying it as an individual subject. I found breaking the world down into processes and ingredients …
