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Sept 26th 2014: Article on Open Source Malaria (OSM) appears in the School of Chemistry's Newsletter, ChemNews. Sept 18th 2014: Mat interviewed on Canadian and US Radio about Open Source Pharma and Ebola. June 26th 2014: The Open Source Malaria project is featured in the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service. Oct 31st 2013: Mat speaks about open data and open access at the Open Access Research conference at QUT, Brisbane. Oct 21st 2013: The Open Source Malaria Consortium wins one of three $30K Google/PLoS/Wellcome Trust ASAP awards. Webcast from the World Bank (award is from 1:08 in). Background video. Picked up in The Conversation, by MMV. Interview at PLoS Blogs. Bill Gates tweets about the project. Sept 26th 2013: Mat runs conference session on "Is Open Source Drug Discovery Practical?" at WHO, Geneva, addressing, among other things, whether patents are necessary in drug discovery. Sept 11th 2013: Mat interviewed by MMV about open drug discovery. May 17th 2013: Mat talks about open source drug discovery at the 2013 GoldLab Symposium in Boulder, Colorado. May 15th 2013: Mat is quoted in an article in The Atlantic on "de-linking" drug R&D from the cost of medicines. May 10th 2013: Mat talks at Sydney Uni about the group's use of the electronic lab notebook Labtrove. May 1st 2013: The OSDD Malaria project is mentioned as one of the top innovations worldwide in malaria by The Guardian newspaper. Apr 22nd 2013: Congratulations to Nilupa as she hands in her corrected PhD thesis, to become Dr Amarasinghe. Apr 18th 2013: Congratulations to Mingfeng as he hands in his corrected PhD thesis, to become Dr Yu. Mar 28th 2013: Mat's piece about open access and open science comes out in The Conversation in response to number of Nature articles on the subject. Feb 15th 2013: Congratulations to new Honours student Kat Badiola for winning a University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize. Jan 30th 2013: Congratulations to Althea on submitting her PhD thesis. Jan 30th 2013: The OSDDMalaria team is featured in an article on crowdsourcing in the RSC's Chemistry World magazine. Jan 25th 2013: Mat is interviewed in the Nature Chemistry blog The Sceptical Chymist. Jan 17th 2013: Mat publishes an opinion piece on open access on the ABC News site, The Drum. Nov 7th 2012: The group's open source research featured on SciDev.Net in a story on science networks. This follows an earlier story covering the case study (below) analysing The Synaptic Leap's achievements. Sept 20th 2012: Study published comparing The Synaptic Leap and Indian OSDD Projects. Sept 20th 2012: Open letter to the new CEO of the Australian Research Council about the value of open data is published in The Conversation with a link to the Google Doc that can be signed. Please feel free to add your name. Stephen Matchett comments on it in The Australian. Sept 19th 2012: Mat delivers keynote about open source drug discovery at the 1st Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki. Sept 13th 2012: Interview with Mat on open science published by the Results for Development Institute. August 31 2012: Congratulations to Mingfeng, Nilupa and Soo for submitting their PhD theses. May 4th 2012: Mat presents some of the group's research at the University of Sydney Integration in Biology and Medicine Conference. May 3rd 2012: Althea is awarded a RJW Le Fevre Research Travelling Scholarship from the School of Chemistry to present her research at an overseas conference later this year. February 24th 2012: We play host to the first Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria meeting. An account of the meeting is here, and the current playlist of talks is here. A Sydney Uni news feature on the meeting is here and here. February 18th 2012: Mat talks at a session on "Innovating Innovation" at the AAAS meeting in Vancouver. January 27th 2012: Mat's blog post on open access is republished on the LSE blog. November 23rd 2011: Mat wins a NSW Science and Engineering Award in the "Emerging Research" category for open science. Story is here and here. November 1st 2011: Two Australian Research Council grants awarded. ARC Discovery (DP120104035): Charting Intercellular Space, M. H. Todd, P. J. Rutledge and P. J. Smith ($348K) and ARC Linkage (LP120100552): Open Source Drug Discovery for Malaria, M. H. Todd and T. N. C. Wells ($320K). October 28th 2011: Mat talks at Sydney University's Open Access Week - recording here and on Youtube. October 20th 2011: Mat's article entitled "We eat what we are – let's detoxify the word 'chemical'" appears in The Conversation. September 23rd 2011: Our second open science paper is published, describing how Open Science is a Research Accelerator. September 21st 2011: Our first open science paper is published, on the Resolution of Praziquantel. August 19th 2011: Ahamed submits his corrected PhD thesis today, and we welcome two new postdocs to the group, Paul Ylioja and Murray Robertson. April 8th 2011: Mat talks about the future of web-based chemical collaboration at the Cyberchemistry meeting at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington State. February 21st 2011: Congratulations to Swapnil on his award of a Henry Bertie and Florence Mabel Gritton Research Scholarship. Drinks are on him... February 15th 2011: A new industry-sponsored PhD position in medicinal chemistry is available. If you're interested, please contact Mat. Only Australian residents are eligible for this opening. February 15th 2011: The awesome and long-awaited Treasure Hunt paper comes out in J. Chem. Ed. - this turns a campus map into a play area for a Chemistry-themed treasure hunt. January 27th 2011: Mat is named as one of the University's top 10 lecturers for 2010 in a nationwide poll. November 3rd 2010: Congratulations to Ahamed for being selected as one of the three Sydney University Chemical Society Le Fevre Lecturers for 2010. October 6th 2010: Mat talks about open science and electronic lab notebooks at USyd's eResearch showcase. September 23rd 2010: Yu Heng's first paper is accepted into Chem. Eur. J. And he's off to start his PhD with Dave Spring. Paper available here September 20th 2010: Ahamed, Thiru and lots of other peoples' paper on how dihydroisoquinoline reacts with nitromethane is published. September 6th 2010: Ahamed's review on catalytic asymmetric additions of C-nucleophiles to N-heterocycles is published. August 6th 2010: Mat speaks on Open Science at Ignite Sydney. Mat's talk's currently the most watched from the night. June 2010: Our lab's open science approach featured in Chemistry in Australia May 11th 2010: Mat is awarded a Citation for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Science at The University of Sydney. April 6th 2010: Mat talks about open science at Google. The talk is picked up here. February 4th 2010: Our open science project is the subject of a feature article in Nature