BMCS Lectureship
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BMCS Lectureship 2024/2025 – Announcement of Appointee
BMCS Lectureship 2023/2024 – Announcement of Appointee
BMCS Lectureships 2022/2023 – Announcement of appointees
BMCS Lectureships 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 – announcement of appointees
Overview
The Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (BMCS) Lectureship was launched in 2014. We live in a time when both the process of drug discovery and the business models by which it is funded have fundamentally altered in the last generation. Yet the great benefits of new medicines to society are clear to everyone, and the expectations for future advances, as we seek to treat currently untreatable conditions, are also great. These are exciting times to be involved in medicinal chemistry and we seek especially to inspire the next generation of medicinal chemists. BMCS Lecturers seek to inspire the next generation of medicinal chemists, and their lectures should therefore appeal, not only to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, but also to undergraduates.
Every two years, the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (BMCS) of the RSC seeks nominations of BMCS Lecturers in response to an advertisement publicising this opportunity. The selected Lecturers are each appointed for a one-year period.
We live in a time when both the process of drug discovery and the business models by which it is funded have fundamentally altered in the last generation. Yet the great benefits of new medicines to society are clear to everyone, and the expectations for future advances, as we seek to treat currently untreatable conditions, are also great. These are exciting times to be involved in medicinal chemistry and we seek especially to inspire the next generation of medicinal chemists.
Each Lecturer delivers one of his/her lectures as part of the RSC’s series of Thursday evening public lectures at Burlington House. Details of the lecture venues and titles for the talks of all the BMCS Lecturers will be publicised on this website.
Call for Nominations
Call for nominations are now closed.
Criteria
Successful applications must be available to deliver up to six lectures at UK universities.
Applications are invited from applicants at all stages in their career.
Applicants should have made significant advances in the subject through new products or methods.
BMCS Lectureship 2024/2025 – Announcement of appointee
We are pleased to announce that the BMCS has made the following appointments: BMCS Lecturer for 2024/2025 is Asier Unciti-Broceta of University of Edinburgh.
Please see the following information for Asier’s lectures:
- University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, 2pm 1st. May 2025.
Please contact Prof. Angela Russell (angela.russell@chem.ox.ac.uk) - University of Cardiff, 7th May 2025.
Please contact Andrew Westwell (WestwellA@cardiff.ac.uk) - University of Glasgow, 12 noon 28th. May 2025
Please contact Prof. Andrew Jamieson (Andrew.Jamieson.2@glasgow.ac.uk) - University of Liverpool, 11th June 2025
Please contact Ella Mills (e.k.mills@liverpool.ac.uk) - Imperial College, London: Drug Discovery Hub seminar, 11 am 13th June 2025.
Please contact Dr Benedikt V. Hölbling (b.holbling@imperial.ac.uk). - University of Newcastle, 30th September
Please contact Celine Cano (celine.cano@newcastle.ac.uk)
Please contact Dr Andrew Stachulski directly with any queries or expressions of interest in staging a lecture.
Past Winners
2023/2024
Dafydd Owen (Pfizer)
2022/2023
James Crawford (Genentech)
2021/2022
Dr David Rees (Astex Pharmaceuticals)

Dr Elisabetta Chiarparin (AstraZeneca) and Dr James Duffy (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
2019/2020
Dr David Witty (Witnet R&D Consultancy, formerly Convergence Pharmaceuticals)
2018/2019
Dr Andrew Thomas (Helvetica Capital)

2017/2018
Dr Jamie Scott (AstraZeneca)
2016/2017
Professor Stuart Conway (University of Oxford)
2015/2016
Professor Barry Potter (University of Bath)
2014/2015
Professor Michael Waring (AstraZeneca, now University of Newcastle)