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Last updated: 19 May 2025

MRes/PhD
CSCT
Academia
First Destination
Industry
Current Role

Current Sector: Industry

Current Company: Roche

PhD Project Title: Selective Catalytic C-H Functionalization for Drug Discovery and Manufacture

Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Frost and Dr Darrell Patterson

External Partner: Novartis

MRes Project 1: Ru catalysed C-H activation

Supervisor(s): Professor Chris Frost


MRes Project 2: Sustainable production of pharmaceuticals – novel continuous processing

Supervisor(s): Professor Stan Kolaczkowski, Dr Darrell Patterson & Professor Christopher Frost

Andy graduated with an MSci degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 2011 which also involved an industrial placement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. His research interests are in synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry and his final year at Bristol was spent working on boron mediated cross couplings. Outside of the academic environment, his interests include music and sports.