Dr James Coverdale MChem PhD CChem MRSC

Dr James Coverdale

School of Pharmacy
Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Biology

Contact details

Dr James Coverdale is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Biology. His previous experience within industry and academia has provided him with analytical expertise in the field of bioinorganic chemistry. He lectures on medicinal chemistry to students on the MPharm course.

James’s research focuses on the role of metals in medicine, and the development of new experimental techniques. James has a specific interest in how metal dyshomeostasis can contribute to various pathological states, and how metal-based therapies can provide new opportunities for the treatment of diseases.

James was awarded Chartered Chemist status in 2021, in recognition of his on-going professional practice.

ORCID: 0000-0002-7779-6620

 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemistry, University of Warwick, 2017
  • MChem in Chemistry, University of Warwick, 2014

Teaching

MPharm: Chemistry for Pharmacists

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Coverdale is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

  • Inorganic medicinal chemistry
  • Metalloproteomics

Development of inorganic analytical techniques

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Coverdale directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mdsgradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Other activities

  • Chartered Chemist (CChem)
  • Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
  • Winner: 2019 Best Paper Awards – Inorganics (MDPI, Basel)
  • Winner: Research Publication Prize 2019 – University of Warwick
  • Postgraduate Award in Transferable Skills – University of Warwick
  • “Osmium Catalysis & Methods of Synthesis” – UK Patent Application No. GB 1504281

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Harrington, CF, Carpenter, G, Coverdale, JPC, Douglas, L, Mills, C, Willis, K & Schilsky, ML 2024, '', Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Coverdale, JPC, Bedford, RA, Carter, OWL, Cao, S, Wills, M & Sadler, PJ 2024, '', ChemBioChem.

Fry, ME, Alsaif, S, Khanom, Y, Keirle, AK, Pheasey, CE, Song, JI, Bedford, RA, Romero Canelon, I, Sadler, PJ & Coverdale, J 2024, '', ChemCatChem.

Imberti, C, Lok, J, Coverdale, JPC, Carter, OWL, Fry, ME, Postings, ML, Kim, J, Firth, G, Blower, PJ & Sadler, PJ 2023, '', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 62, no. 50, pp. 20745-20753.

Bridgewater, HE, Bolitho, EM, Romero-Canelón, I, Sadler, PJ & Coverdale, JPC 2023, '', Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 345-353.

Coverdale, J, Kostrhunova, H, Markova, L, Song, H, Postings, ML, Bridgewater, HE, Brabec, V, Rogers, NJ & Scott, P 2023, '', Dalton Transactions, vol. 52, no. 20, pp. 6656-6667 .

Coverdale, JPC, Berg, HAVD, Khazaipoul, S, Bridgewater, HE, Stewart, AJ & Blindauer, CA 2022, '', Chemical Communications, vol. 58, no. 53, pp. 7384-7387.

Mikhaylina, A, Ksibe, AZ, Wilkinson, RC, Smith, D, Marks, E, Coverdale, JPC, Fülöp, V, Scanlan, DJ & Blindauer, CA 2022, '', Nature Chemical Biology, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 869–877 .

Bolitho, EM, Coverdale, J, Wolny, JA, Schunemann, V & Sadler, PJ 2022, '', Faraday Discussions, vol. 234, pp. 264-283.

Bolitho, EM, Bridgewater, HE, Needham, RJ, Coverdale, JPC, Quinn, PD, Sanchez-Cano, C & Sadler, PJ 2021, '', Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, vol. 8, no. 15, pp. 3675-3685.

Kladnik, J, Coverdale, JPC, Kljun, J, Burmeister, H, Lippman, P, Ellis, FG, Jones, AM, Ott, I, Romero-Canelón, I & Turel, I 2021, '', Cancers, vol. 13, no. 10, 2493.

Coverdale, JPC, Guy, CS, Bridgewater, HE, Needham, RJ, Fullam, E & Sadler, PJ 2021, '', Metallomics, vol. 13, no. 4, mfab007, pp. 1-8.

Bolitho, EM, Worby, NG, Coverdale, J, Wolny, JA, Schunemann, V & Sadler, PJ 2021, '', Organometallics, vol. 40, no. 17, pp. 3012-3023.

Review article

Coverdale, JPC, Polepalli, S, Arruda, MAZ, Santos da Silva, AB, Stewart, AJ & Blindauer, CA 2024, '', Biomolecules, vol. 14, no. 1, 104.

Coverdale, JPC, Harrington, CF & Solovyev, N 2023, '', Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry.