The AJR group
Dr Laurence Silpa
During my undergraduate course, I was a research student in the School of Pharmacy in Tours (France) in Prof. Cecile Enguehard-Gueiffier’s group where I was able to synthesize variously substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines as potential T. Gondii and C. Parvum inhibitors. I then pursued my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Tours under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Abarbri and investigated on the discovery of new molecules that could prevent and/or treat coccidiosis. I have joined Prof. Angela Russell’s group as a postdoctoral research associate in June 2015 and have been working in collaboration with Dr Sally Cowley on the development of chemical tools to promote induced pluripotent stem cells self renewal. This project was part of the Oxford-led StemBANCC consortium and is funded by the EU Innovative Medicines Initiative. Since October 2017, I have been working on a project, funded by OxStem Ltd, to synthesise and screen new small molecules (stem cell modulators) while developing assays for stem cell maintenance and differentiation in 2D and/or 3D culture systems.