Imperial College London | Emerging Technologies Competition 2024 winner | Enabling Technologies

Othman Almusaimi, from Imperial College London, is the Emerging Technologies Competition winner in the Enabling Technologies category, for his pitch on "Re-Inventing Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis".

Othman has innovated solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) to allow the synthesis of multiple peptide fragments on a single bead, departing from the conventional method of synthesising only one fragment per bead. This advancement promises to significantly boost the productivity of existing peptide analogues and facilitate the synthesis of first-in-class analogues.