MicroTex would like to wish a warm welcome to Tomas Deingruber who has joined the team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry. Tomas will support the drug formulation arm of MicroTex, focusing on synthesis of pro-moieties targeting senescent cells.
An organic/medicinal chemist by background, Tomas did his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, obtaining an MSci in Natural Sciences after a Masters project in the lab of Prof. Jason Chin focusing on synthesis of functionalised unnatural amino acids. He then stayed on in Cambridge to do a PhD under the supervision of Prof. David Spring and worked on synthesis of small molecules, peptides and their conjugates with an application to target bacteria. After a short postdoc in the same lab, he has now joined the MicroTex team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
In his free time, Tomas is known to enjoy cooking, beekeeping and cryptic crosswords.
Welcome to the team Tomas! We’re excited to have you on board and to see the progress you make.