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Obituary: Leon Phillips

Daniel Packwood celebrates the life and career of physical chemist Leon Phillips.

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Associate Professor Daniel Packwood

President’s column

Ngā mihi o te tau hou: Happy New Year!

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Joanne Harvey

Obituary: Ashley Wilson - a career in chemistry

Celebrating the life and works of Ashley Wilson, a keen and long-term supporter of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, who died recently aged 90 years.

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Nick Wilson

Azo-containing redox energy storage materials: a brief review

Examining Azo-containing redox as an energy storage system, in the global transition towards electricaly-generated power sources.

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‍Benjamin M. Spector-Watts

Sweet as: exemplars of carbohydrate analysis

Starch is the main source of digestible energy in humans, and a major component of our diet. This article analyses polysaccharides, and what they mean to life on this planet.

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Simon F. R. Hinkley,* Cara A. Luiten, Ian M. Sims, Susan M. Carnachan, Alison M. Daines and Mahdieh Ghofrani

Improving human health outcomes one transition state analogue at a time

The Ferrier Research Institute and Albert Einstein College of Medicine have spent three decades fine-tuning the process of Transition state (TS) analogue design. This article aims to provide a high-level introduction to the process, and provide selected examples that highlight the relevance of this process to drug development.

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Amy J. Foster, Farah Lamiable-Oulaïdi and Peter C. Tyler

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: mRNA wins at last

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

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Antony Fairbanks

‍Obituary: Albert James (Jim) Ellis‍

‍Passed away 2 April 2023 in Waikanae aged 93

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CiNZ staff

Advanced chemotherapeutics: A new cancer treatment option

Combining chemotherapeutics with immune-enhancing pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to improve cancer treatments: A new cancer treatment option to overcome established cancers.

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Lucia Druzianic

A story of lead

‍Dr Joanna Dowle (Senior Advisor at the Environmental Protection Authority) outlines the long and varied history of how we’ve used lead – despite its toxicity.This is an excerpt from the EPA’s Science at work series of science communication stories.

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Dr Joanna Dowle

Making Waves

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Chris Orsman

Some Unremembered Chemists - Francis Brian Shorland

Francis Brian Shorland, OBE, PhD, DSc (L’pool), Hon. DSc (VUW), FRSNZ (1909-1999)

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Brian Halton

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