Solving problems

Learn more about the topics the Ferrier team is working on.

Find out how chemistry and synthetic & chemical biology can solve each of these challenges.

Bile acids repurposed to tackle human disease

Learn more about how the synthetic chemistry team is repurposing bile acids to solve problems.
New frontiers in antiviral therapeutics

Learn more about how the synthetic chemistry team is developing broad-spectrum antiviral drugs to create new treatments for viral diseases.
Green paint from trees

Learn more about how the natural products team is offering a renewable alternative to petrochemical paints.
Refining mRNA production to generate liver immunity

Learn more about how the mRNA and lipid nanoparticles team is developing scalable mRNA purification methods to improve vaccine effectiveness.
New lipids for RNA delivery

Learn more about how the mRNA and lipid nanoparticles team is developing novel lipids to create cost-effective RNA delivery systems.
mRNA malaria vaccine

Learn more about how the mRNA and lipid nanoparticles team is developing an mRNA vaccine to overcome the limitations of traditional malaria vaccines.
Anticancer immunotherapy

Learn more about how we developed a synthetic vaccine using a natural product and novel chemical linker as a potential anticancer therapy.
Fungal factories

Learn more about how the synthetic and chemical biology team engineer fungi for the production of bioactive molecules as insecticides or therapeutics.
Human therapeutics by targeting proteins

Learn more about how the synthetic and chemical biology team are designing new antibiotics using computational methods to develop treatments for diseases.