Tess Phillips

Biography

I graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Masters degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Chemistry.  I stayed on in Cambridge to complete a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Holmes, investigating how palladium-catalysed reactions can be conducted using environmentally benign carbon dioxide as an alternative to traditional organic solvents. 

After completing my PhD, I worked as a medicinal chemist at the Cambridge based biotech company Astex Technology, where I was part of drug discovery teams on a number of oncology projects. 

I then moved back into academia, joining The University of Manchester to take up a position as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Pat Bailey’s group working on the total synthesis of indole alkaloid natural products.  After moving with Pat to Keele I was appointed to Research Fellow in 2011 and Lecturer in 2013.

Research and scholarship

My research interests are synthetic organic chemistry, medicinal and natural product chemistry and drug discovery.

Teaching

CHE-00027: General and Organic Chemistry

CHE-00029: General and Organic Chemistry for Health

CHE-20001: Organic Synthesis and Chirality (tutorials)

CHE-20027: Medicinal and Biological Chemistry 1 (Module Leader)

CHE-30047: Medicinal and Biological Chemistry 2 (Module Leader)

CHE-30044: Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 

CHE-40023: Applied Chemistry Topics (Module Leader)

CHE-30002: Dual Honours Research Project

CHE-30040: Chemistry Research Project

CHE-30041: Medicinal Chemistry Research Project

CHE-40021: MChem Research Project