Emily Greeves, a second-year PhD student in the Bower Research Group, has been recognised with a poster prize at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community North West Regional Meeting 2025, hosted at the University of Liverpool.
The meeting brought together researchers from across the region to share advances in organic chemistry and featured a wide range of talks and posters from both academic and industrial scientists.
Emily’s poster, titled “Catch and Release Strategy for Skeletal Editing of Saturated N-Heterocycles”, showcased her research on the manipulation of 4–7 membered saturated N-heterocycles. Her work focuses on enabling late-stage modifications of pharmaceutically relevant scaffolds and natural products — a promising direction in modern synthetic chemistry.
This research could help chemists make precise structural changes to drug-like molecules, potentially improving their performance or tailoring them for specific medical applications.
Reflecting on the experience, Emily said:
"This was my first time presenting a poster at a conference, and it was an excellent opportunity to share my work and engage with both academic and industrial researchers. Being awarded a prize made the experience even more special, and I’m extremely proud of this achievement. I look forward to presenting more of my work at future conferences."
Emily is part of the Department of Chemistry’s Bower research group, which focuses on synthetic organic chemistry, including catalytic methodologies and skeletal editing strategies.