RSC Organic Chemistry Community North West Regional Meeting 2026

Programme

Registration from 9:00 with coffee/tea and exhibitors 

Session 1 

10:15–10:30 Welcoming remarks and housekeeping

10:30–11:00 Dr Julien Doulcet (Lancaster University). “Harnessing Amine Feedstocks for C(sp³)–C(sp³) Bond Formation via Radical Cross-Coupling”

11:00–11:30 Dr Aaron Trowbridge (University of Manchester). “Biomimetic N-terminal homologation of amino acids”

11:30–12:00 Dr John Ward (University of Liverpool) - title tbc

12:00–14:00      Lunch, Exhibitions and Poster Session 

Session 2 

14:00–14:30 Dr Jamie Docherty (Lancaster University). “Synthetic Innovation in Strained Heterocycles and DNA-Encoded Libraries”

14:30–15:00 Dr Andrew Lewis (Manchester Metropolitan University). “Covalent Chemistry and Computational Discovery: Integrating Chemical Biology and AI to Probe Mechanisms of Disease”

15:00–15:30 Dr Jean-Marc Henry (Astra Zeneca). “Development and implementation at 200kg scale of a transamination process”

15:30–16:30 Plenary Lecture: Prof Donna Blackmond (Scripps Research & University of Liverpool). Presentation of the 2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication medal.

16:30–16:45 Concluding remarks and poster prizes 

16:45-18:00 Drinks reception