Mike and Ioana’s new paper out on Chemistry Europe


You can read more about their paper “Remote Residue Substitution and Macrocyclization Preorganize a β-Hairpin Peptide and Enhance β-Catenin Binding” here. Congrats, Mike and Ioana!

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Ioana’s article and interview in ChemComm


Daria and Ioana have published a Highlight in ChemComm titled Unlocking novel therapies: cyclic peptide design for amyloidogenic targets through synergies of experiments, simulations, and machine learning. From a computational perspecrive, they review the latest advancements in cyclic peptide design against amyloidogenic targets in light of recent advancements and potential of machine learning. They discuss […]

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ChemAI poster prizes for T. van Heesch and J. Dijkman


During the fully sold-out ChemAI event, which was co-organized by Bernd Ensing, Computational Chemistry had the chance to share its work with the academic and industrial communities. The work of our PhDs and Postdocs was showcased during the poster session. While everyone received a lot of well-deserved attention, two group members stood out: Jacobus received […]

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Former group visitor O. Esquivias obtains his PhD in Barcelona


Under the supervision of Prof. Carme Rovira, Oriol Esquivias Bautista de Lisbona, a former visitor in the group of Bernd Ensing, has obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona with the higher possible note, i.e., “excellent”. During his stay in our group, Oriol worked on combining quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics modelling with path-metadynamics to elucidate […]

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