Welcome to the webpages of the Lam research group, located in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. We are an organic synthesis research group, and our research interests are based on the design of new organic reactions, asymmetric catalytic transformations, and natural product synthesis.

Interested in joining the group as a postdoc, and willing to apply for your own funding? Please contact us for possibilities.

News
February 2012 Applications from outstanding candidates for PhD positions are being considered. Please apply now!
December 2011 Darryl wins a poster prize at the recent 40th Scottish Regional Meeting of the Organic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Well done!
November 2011 Hon is awarded an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award 2011.
October 2011 The group welcomes Nawasit Chotsaeng, a new PhD student.
September 2011 Charlene wins the prize for the best student talk at the recent 26th Postgraduate Symposium of the RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group. Congratulations!
September 2011 The group welcomes new PhD students Hamish Hepburn, Alison Jones, and Boris Michel.
September 2011 The group welcomes Bonnie Choi, a new Masters student, and Jen Stephen, an honorary Lam group member!
August 2011 Congratulations to Aakarsh, whose rhodium-catalyzed alkenylarene arylation paper is accepted for publication in Chemical Science.
July 2011 Congratulations to Donna, whose ynamide hydroacyloxylation paper is accepted for publication in Chemical Communications.
June 2011 Welcome to Murtuza Ali, a taught MSc student who will be with us for two months.
May 2011 Hon is awarded the RSC Hickinbottom Award for 2011.
May 2011 Well done to Sam, who wins the runner-up prize for her talk at the 22nd SCI Regional Graduate Symposium on Novel Organic Chemistry in Edinburgh.
April 2011 Congratulations to Charlene, whose conjugate allylation paper is accepted for publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
March 2011 Congratulations to Serghei, whose 4-aminopyrimidine synthesis paper is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron.
March 2011 Welcome to new postdoc Yunfei Luo.
February 2011 Our review on TADDOL-based phosphorus ligands is accepted for publication in Synthesis.
February 2011 Welcome to new Eramsus student Sophie Moreau.
January 2011 Well done to Benoit, who passed his Ph.D. viva!
January 2011 The group welcomes new graduate students Szymon Kujawa and Jorge Solana.
January 2011 The group welcomes new postdocs Dan Best and Alan Burns.
 
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