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Omar Rifaie Graham

@rifaiegrahamlab.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University of London. Previously Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London. Polymer chemist interested in Synthetic Cells, biotech, and diagnostics.

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Expression of Interest for Royal Society University Research Fellowships The Department of Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London is looking to support applicants for the Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF). The URF is a prestigious fellowship program...

Are you a chemist with 3-8 years of post-PhD research experience and want to join the amazing Chemistry Dept @qmul.ac.uk ? If yes, please have a look at our call for expressions of interest in the Royal Society University Research Fellowship scheme. #ChemSky www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/ccr/news/498...

04.06.2025 10:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Congratulations Monica ๐Ÿฅณ

20.05.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Delighted to see our first collaboration with @kilbinger-group.bsky.social on foldamer water channels with high salt exclusion online at @angewandtechemie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ez352x99

25.03.2025 10:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Photoswitchable gating of non-equilibrium enzymatic feedback in chemically communicating polymersome nanoreactors - Nature Chemistry The circadian rhythm generates out-of-equilibrium metabolite oscillations controlled by feedback loops under light/dark cycles. Now, it has been shown that these life-like properties can emerge from a...

Some of our representative work:
๐Ÿ”ฌ Nature Chem โ€“ Synthetic cells for polymerization (nature.com/articles/s41...)
๐Ÿงช Nat Comms โ€“ Polymer-based artificial systems (nature.com/articles/s41...)

22.03.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics Spatiotemporal Controlled Release Inks of Biocompatible polyEsters (SCRIBE) is a novel 2PP resin family with sub-micron resolution and tuneable hydrolysis. SCRIBE enables direct printing of hollow mi...

Our article "Nanoscale Biodegradable Printing for Designed Tuneability of Vaccine Delivery Kinetics" is open-access at Advanced Materials!
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Major shout to my co-first author Rujie Sun and all our wonderful collaborators who helped realize this dream!

02.03.2025 23:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2025 Awardees - Thieme Chemistry - Georg Thieme Verlag The Thieme Chemistry Journals Award is presented every year to up-and-coming researchers worldwide who are in the early stages of their independent academic career as assistant or junior professors.

Happy to have been awarded a 2025 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award. Looking forward to doing more (weird) organic chemistry research with my group! @uobchemistry.bsky.social www.thieme.de/en/thieme-ch...

24.02.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com/articles/s41...

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13.02.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please get in touch if you would like to conduct a Royal Society Newton Fellowship in my group at Queen Mary University of London. The topic would be either on polymer-based Synthetic Cells or polymerization reactions for disease diagnostics. Details of the scheme and relevant papers below:

13.02.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Upscaling helicene synthesys. Excellent work coming from @jochenbrandt.bsky.social and co-workers in our department @qmul.ac.uk

13.01.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey Monica, I hope youโ€™re well! Would you mind adding me?

14.12.2024 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you looking for a #PhD and you are interested in synthetic cells?
Have a look at the 17 #PhDpositions below! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

09.12.2024 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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