During British Science Week 2025, we packed up and took Escape Lab to various audiences across four exciting events:  Secondary school children at the DMU Teen Tech festival Year 5 students at St Joseph's Catholic Voluntary Academy Leicester Year 5 students at Forest Lodge Academy, Leicester Family Day at Science Oxford Centre We had an absolute blast engaging with over 250 children, sparking curiosity and enthusiasm for science. We especially enjoyed all the questions from t

Lab Challenge is an interactive lab-themed activity aimed at younger children - step into a drug discovery lab to perform experiments and find a drug to fight a virus! ​ We had a great time running Lab Challenge at the Science Oxford Centre as part of the Oxford IF Science + Ideas Festival on 15 October 2023. Over 90 young scientists undertook our screening, cytotoxicity and compound building experiments, recorded their results and found our antiviral compound! We had grea

One of our research interests is to investigate natural product compounds to develop them as novel antivirals. In a new feature article...

We had a great time running the Escape Lab activity at the British Science Festival in Leicester on 16th September 2022. Based on our...

We are so excited to announce our Escape Lab activity at the British Science Festival in Leicester this year! Inspired by our drug...