1. Christine Baltus studied chemistry at the Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier, France, where she obtained the Diploma of Ingenieur in Chemistry (Master 2 Degree) in 2008. She then obtained her PhD in 2011 from the University of Greenwich, UK, with a PhD thesis entitled ‘Suzuki–Miyaura Mediated Biphenyl Synthesis: A Spotlight on the Boronate Coupling Partner’ under the supervision of John Spencer and part-funded by Novartis, with Neil Press as her industrial supervisor. She was awarded the...
2. John Spencer’s research covers medicinal chemistry, chemical biology tool generation and the synthesis of drug-like libraries, notably fragments. The synthetic chemistry mainly employs palladium catalysis and is often microwave-mediated. He spent 10 years in the industrial medicinal chemistry research field and worked from 2001 to 2006 at the (Nobel Laureate) James Black Foundation. He is coinventor on ten patents and has over 85 publications. He has been a Reader in Synthetic Chemistry at his alma mater...