Chris Serpell
@CJSerpell
Assoc. Prof. of Drug Discovery @UCL @School_Pharmacy. Weird-y nucleic acids, chem. bio. of natural products. #Catholic. Literature highlights @SerpellLabReads
We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/res… ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)
PharmAlliance is great for linking up with excellent collaborators!
An example of one of the teams here @CJSerpell
We still have several bursaries for the Foldamers meeting (see foldamers2025.com) which pays for conference fees, travel and board! Applicants need to be from or based in the UK, but there is still a student rate for those who are not. estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-an… #chemistry
Jen Craft MP: "When I was given the diagnosis of my daughter's Down's Syndrome, the next thing the midwife said to me, after 'sorry', was 'I can book you a termination within 48 hours.'"
Devastated at the #AssistedDyingBill passing through the House of Commons - a tiny majority of 23 on a Private Member's Bill is no way to pass through legislation that will drastically alter how Disabled people trust and engage with healthcare professionals.
Most of my patients are not Esther Rantzens. They are ordinary people of limited means. Almost every working day I have a conversation with a terminally ill patient where the worries they raise are not physical symptoms, but practical concerns about finances, how they will pay…
Can we please remember that Esther Rantzen would have missed two birthdays at the very least had "#assisteddying" been legal and she had chosen that option? She is a (thankfully) living, breathing example of why passing this bill would be a mistake. #assistedsuicide
I was not expected to survive birth, my parents had bought the teddy I was due to be buried with. Very hard, knowing this as well as many other cases I’ve encountered pastorally, not to view today’s vote in the House of Commons as an act of acute moral evil.
Lecturer position available in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry at UCL, open to experimental, theoretical, computational, digital chemists with big ideas. Please RT! Deadline 24-Jun
Little known fact that the European Convention on Human Rights was written to protect... telling people with Down's Syndrome to kill themselves.
Kinnock: protecting those with Downs Syndrome from having assisted dying suggested to them might be challenged on human rights grounds
"But, remarkably, Leadbeater seems not to have consulted the Royal College of Psychiatrists before announcing that their members would be assessing thousands of assisted suicide applications every year. And now it seems she is dragging them into a process they regard as…
A psychiatrist’s role is to care for the psychologically troubled — including terminally ill people who want to end their lives. This bill, by contrast, just tells psychiatrists to rubber-stamp patients’ access to lethal drugs. Me for @spectator on the @rcpsych bombshell:
Apparently it's the group finance director that asked this question I'm sure he wasn't malicious. He just wanted to plan But that's exactly what's so worrying: perfectly sensible people will now start putting a £ on someone's life That's the effect of this law
Our member, a care home manager, was asked today to estimate how many disabled residents might be eligible for medically-assisted suicide under the Leadbeater bill and how many places might be freed-up if the option was 'assertively marketed'. Is this the future you want?
“I fear that over time, this Bill will be open to broader interpretation, to include people who aren’t dying, but are seen by medical staff, who may mean well, as having a lesser quality of life - people like my child.” Angela Mui
Scots mum fears Down's Syndrome son 'vulnerable' if Assisted Dying bill passed thescottishsun.co.uk/news/14776017/…
Keir Starmer told MPs today at Prime Minister's Questions that "one death by suicide is one too many". So why did he vote for the assisted suicide Bill, which would lead to the deaths of thousands of people by suicide ever year?
We do not consider the views of people with Down syndrome and their families to be ‘noise’. Read our open letter about assisted dying, which outlines the concerns of 61 groups representing the interests of disabled people, here: ndspg.org/wp-content/upl…
Amidst the noise in the debate around choice at the end of life, it is the voices of brave people like @JamestheTJ & Pat Malone that need to be heard. Pat’s evidence to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee demonstrates exactly why the law needs to change.
Safeguards on the Assisted Dying Bill are collapsing. Rushed, badly thought out legislation. Needs to be voted down. itv.com/news/2025-02-1…
We've not even passed the law and already they are pushing the boundaries out further than the original proposal! If ever you needed proof as to why this law should be stopped this is it!
🔴This is wrong! Please pray for the UK. The sad part is i know people who would have used the assisted suicide option had it been available and now after treatment and spiritual guidance they are doing really well.
We're looking for a postdoc to join the group UCL @School_Pharmacy to use sequence to tie polymers in knots. Come and combine supramolecular chemistry with precision synthetic macromolecules! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…