From its earliest days the LMB has attracted and trained first class scientists from around the world – creating a diverse community for the exchange of ideas and technical innovation. The LMB provides excellent opportunities for early career and established researchers – people with the potential to lead their field. A high percentage of LMB students and post-docs stay in research or science related fields after they leave the LMB. The LMB supports the wider scientific community by supplying highly trained scientific leaders. They leave the LMB to develop and support molecular biology both in the UK and throughout the world.
Life Sciences Breakthrough of the Year for Melina Schuh’s work to visualise ovulation
LMB 2008-2016, Senior Investigator Scientist, Group Leader, Cell Biology
Melina Schuh’s work has been announced as the 2025 Science Breakthrough of the Year in the Life Sciences category by the Falling Walls Foundation. The accolade recognises her group’s achievement to visualise the entire ovulation process in mouse follicles in real-time utilising a newly developed live cell microscopy method, offering new insights into the surprisingly robust ovulation process. More…
Sarah Teichmann: Science always wins if we work together
LMB 1996-1999, 2001-2013, PhD Student, Group Leader, Structural Studies
The Journal of Experimental Medicine spoke to Sarah Teichmann about expanding beyond academic science in your career, dealing with uncertainty in the workplace, and being able to carve out time for yourself despite having multiple demands on your time. More…
Richard Sever awarded the Royal Society Research Culture Award
LMB 1992-1996, Ph.D. Student, PNAC
The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025 is jointly awarded to Richard Sever and John R. Inglis for contributions to improving the scientific system and changing the culture of scientific publishing, through the development of the first preprint servers for the life sciences and medicine. More…
From the lab bench to the football pitch: Gisela Otten joins Cambridge United’s Board of Directors
LMB 2017-2022, Career Development Fellow, Investigator Scientist, PNAC
Cambridge United Football Club have announced that LMB alumnae Gisela Otten has joined their Board of Directors and will also Chair the Board of the Women’s team. It’s a natural fit for Gisela, who began playing for Cambridge United Women after moving to the city to join Felix Randow’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, racking up over 100 appearances in six years of playing.. More…
Matt Higgins and Clemens Plaschka elected to EMBO Membership
Higgins: LMB 1997-2007, PhD student; Postdoctoral Scientist, Neurobiology; Structural Studies
Plaschka: LMB 2016-2018, Postdoctoral Visitor and Scientist, Structural Studies
Congratulations to alumni Matt Higgins and Clemens Plaschka who have both been elected to EMBO Membership. Matt now leads a research group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and Clemens is a Senior Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna. More…
Matt Higgins and Jernej Ule elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Higgins: LMB 1997-2007, PhD student; Postdoctoral Scientist, Neurobiology; Structural Studies
Ule: LMB 2006-2013, Group Leader, Structural Studies
Congratulations to alumni Matt Higgins and Jernej Ule who have both been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Matt now leads a group at the University of Oxford’s Department of Biochemistry, where he conducts structural studies to better understand host-parasite interactions. Jenej is the Van Geest Professor of Neurodegeneration Research at King’s College London where he leads the RNA Networks Laboratory and the UK Dementia Research Institute. More…