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Congratulations to Cyrille Kounde for successfully defending his thesis
Cyrille was a GSK and EPSRC funded PhD student working on photochemical modulation of PROTAC activity. Cyrille was co-supervised by John Harding at GSK. Many thanks to Cyrille's examiners; Prof Ian Collins from the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial's Prof Matt Fuchter.
Congratulations Dr Cyrille Kounde!
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