Staff Profile

I joined the Newcastle Drug Discovery Group in 2019 as a medicinal chemist after completing my PhD at the University of Cambridge exploring the diversity-oriented synthesis of partially saturated bicyclic heteroaromatic scaffolds for drug discovery. I have been involved in a number of drug discovery projects with a focus on irreversible inhibitors.

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• Uguen M, Davison G, Sprenger LJ, Hunter JH, Martin MP, Turberville S, Watt JE, Golding BT, Noble MEM, Stewart HL, Waring MJ. Build–Couple–Transform: A paradigm for lead-like library synthesis with scaffold diversity. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2022, 65(16), 11322-11339.
• Al-Khawaldeh I, Aldred GG, Alyassiri M, Basmadjian C, Bordoni C, Harnor SJ, Heptinstall AB, Hobson SJ, Jennings CE, Khalifa S, Lebraud H, Miller DC, Shrives HJ, de Souza JV, Stewart HL, Temple M, Totobenazara J, Tucker JA, Tudhope SJ, Wang LZ, Bronowska AK, Cano C, Endicott JA, Golding BT, Hardcastle IR, Hickson I, Wedge SR, Willmore E, Noble MEM, Waring MJ. An alkynylpyrimidine-based covalent inhibitor that targets a unique cysteine in NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK). Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2021, 64(14), 10001-10018.