Update on the Move
We thought we'd give you an update on the move with some more photos - it's certainly changing pretty quickly and we're on course to be all settled in by the end of March. Checking [...]
It’s a ‘Rap’ on 2021…Says the BD Team
Have a rap beat in your head when reading it…. Blondie's “Rapture” works... Who would have thought at the start of 2021 That we’d still be discussing the viral damage done But, as we look back to the start [...]
Competition – The 12 Days of Christmas
Enter our Christmas competition and win bars Toblerone! The answers are all on our website and none are too difficult - well Question 6 might get the brain cells going 😊 Question 1: OK a cauliflower isn’t the same [...]
Jingle Bells by Peak Proteins
The team got together and played Jingle Bells on with some laboratory equipment- Amazing! We'd like to thank Dave Hargreaves for the original idea and Helen Gingell for making it happen.
Mark Swims Again!
Dr Mark Elvin swam 50K in November to raise funds for Level Water. Swimming 92 lengths at Wilmslow Leisure Centre pool every weekday in November, Mark completed the 50K with a final 62 lengths of the swimming pool on [...]
Margaret Veldman-Jones – Our “Artist-in-Residence”
Margaret Veldman-Jones has worked for Peak Proteins for 3 years as a Cell Culture Scientist. Her three passions have always been science, art, and sport, becoming a national heptathlete and long jump champion. Joining AstraZeneca after graduating, having completed [...]
What’s ‘Hot’ to Like About Thermophilic Proteins?
When we think of living organisms we generally imagine them in conditions we are used to, but life can be found in almost any environment on Earth. In extremely hot places (such hot springs, geysers, or underwater hydrothermal vents) [...]
Peak Proteins’ Welcomes Dr Sam Dix
Peak Proteins welcomes Dr Sam Dix as a Senior Protein Scientist. Starting Academic Life as a Biochemist Sam graduated with a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Sheffield. During his time as an undergraduate, Sam worked at GlaxoSmithKline, initially [...]
Fragment Screening at Diamond Light Source
Helen Gingell and Tina Howard went on a four-day trip to the Diamond Light Source at Harwell in Oxfordshire. Peak Proteins usually access the x-ray beamlines remotely to collect diffraction data which is later processed to determine the crystal [...]
Peak Proteins’ Welcomes Toby Allen
Peak Proteins welcomes Toby Allen as a Protein Scientist. Starting Academic Life as a Chemist Toby graduated from the University of Sheffield with a MSC in Chemistry. The first three years were mainly theoretical organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry. [...]
