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Previous Group Members

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Dr. Hugh Britton (2024-2026)
Drug Discovery for Multiple Sulfatase Defficiency

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher in Professor Richard Brown's group in Southampton

Dr. Maeva Pichon (2017-2021)
New Reagents for Protein and Peptide modification

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut Pasteur in Paris

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Doctor of Philosophy

Dr Steve John (2018-2024)
Characterising the beta-catenin interactome using novel interaction proteomics techniques and small-molecule inhibitor screen
Next position: Infinitopes

Dr Niama Ezzaidi (2019-2023)
Lead Optimisation of Small Molecule Sulfatase Reactivators for Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency
Next position: Oxford Nanopore

Dr Laura Hayward (2019-2023)
Bio-Orthogonal Chemistry Methodologies and Chemical Biology of Cysteine Redox Signalling
Next position: Astra Zeneca

Dr Ruxandra Moraru (2019-2023)
The Use of 2-Sulfonylpyrimidines As Warheads for Targeted Covalent Inhibition
Next position: Carbosynth

Dr Robert Troup (2018-2022)
Exploring linker fluorination to optimise PROTAC potency, selectivity, and physical properties
Next position: Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr Michael McCoy (2017-2021)
The identification & development of novel Wnt/β-catenin signalling inhibitors
Next position: Catsi

Dr. Joseph Stephenson Clarke (2017-2021)
Exploring Protein Stabilisation as an Approach to Drug Discovery. 

Next position: Evotec 

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Masters by Research Project 

Zhihao Ling (2023-2024)
Synthesis of preclinical agents for Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency. 

Next position: PhD student, Dr George Williams, Southampton

Jason Powell (2019-2020)
Optimisation of indazole derivatives to stabilise the mutant p53-Y220C and restore wild-type function. 
Next position: Aptuit Ltd. 

Sam Alstrum-Graves (2018-2019) 
Synthesis of sulfonyl pyrimidine derivatives and an investigation into their interactions with surface cysteine molecules. Next position: Avantor. 

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Taught Masters and Summer Project 

Ataharulla Mulla (2026)
Ele Catcheside
Fang-Tzu Ou (2024)
Harvey Cooke (2024)
Bethany Cressey (2024)
Matthew Russell (2024)
Haoyi Zhang (2024)
Yichen Wei (2022)
Tuncay Balkaya (2020)

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Fourth Year Research Project

Helena Livsey Hammond (2026-2027)
Elsa Fraser (2026-2027)
Vakshara Udhayasankar (2025-2026)
Marcus Browning (2025-2026)
Matthew Russell (2024-2025)
Kai Lin
(2022-2023)
Akil Jacobs (2021-2022)
Ryan McIntyre  (2020-2021)

Oliver Brown (2019-2020)
Megan Jones (2019-2020)
Dominique Spicer (2018-2019)
Bradley Dickman  (2018-2019)
Amelia Pullinger (2017-2018)
Phoebe Nash (2016-2017)

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Third Year Research Project

Jasper Freeman (2026-2027)
Vasiliky Anestopoulou (2024-2025)
Zeynep Saglam
(2022-2023)
Nomagugu Moyo (2021-2022)
Danielle Holmes (2020-2021)
Marcin Mierzwa (2019-2020)
Johanna Fish (2018-2019)
Isabel Beech (2017-2018)
Rory Mulgrew (2016-2017)

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Baud Research Group

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
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Dr Matthias Baud
m.baud@soton.ac.uk 
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