Author: Laurans, Penelope
Title: Sidney Altman, pathbreaking scientist
Reference YaleNews 6 April 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni - Obituary
Subject: Sidney Altman was a ground-breaking scientist in the field of RNA biology, whose discovery of catalytic properties of RNA led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989
Keywords: Sidney Altman; catalytic properties; RNA; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; Yale; alumni
Photographs: Image of Sidney AltmanAuthor: Snyder, Bill
Title: Lehmann named to receive Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Reference Vanderbilt University Medical Centre 20 April 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni - Awards & Prizes
Subject: Ruth Lehmann is the 2022 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, and she was a Postdoctoral Visitor with Michael Wilcox and Peter Lawrence in the Cell Biology Division.
Keywords: Ruth Lehmann; Director Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; alumni; Cell Biology; Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Sciences; fruit fly Drosophila; germ cells
Photographs: Image of Ruth LehmannAuthor: Ananthasubramaniam, Bharath
Title: Introducing the next SRBR Public Outreach Fellow
Reference Society for Research on Biological Rhythms 30 June 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Career Structure
Subject: Andrew Beale, a postdoc in John O’Neill’s group in the Cell Biology Division, discusses his plans as new Public Outreach Fellow for the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR),
Keywords: Andrew Beale; John O’Neill; SRBR Public Outreach Fellow; biological rhythms; Circadian rhythms; public engagement; chronobiology; temperature sensitivity; Clockbites
Photographs: Head shot of Andrew BealeAuthor: Stemm, Holly
Title: Student to success story: Our Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
Reference CSIROscope 18 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Career Structure
Subject: Ben Porebski, an Investigator Scientist in Philipp Holliger’s group in PNAC Division, discusses his career so far
Keywords: Ben Porebski; Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP); real-world experience; biomedical; Computer sciences; wet lab; CSIRO; Australia; “mixed placement’
Photographs: Ben Porebski in the lab (MRC-LMB)Author: Malins, Abi
Title: Inja Radman
Reference WATT 11 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni- Career Structure
Subject: Inja Radman discusses her career so far with Women Ahead of Their Time (WATT), including the “fantastic time” she spent as a PhD student and Investigator Scientist in Jason Chin’s group
Keywords: Inja Radman; biotech; Silicon Valley; genetics; Summer School of Science; Jason Chin; Synthetic Biology; WATT; IndieBio; New Culture; Matt Gibson; cellular agriculture;
Photographs: Head shot of Inja RadmanAuthor: Kilmartin J. V., Crowther R. A.
Title: Vernon Martin Ingram - Biographical Memoirs
Reference Royal Society Memoirs 10 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni - Obituary
Subject: Vernon Ingram Royal Society Biographical Memoir, written by emeritus scientists John Kilmartin and Tony Crowther.
Keywords: Vernon Ingram; X-ray crystallography; sickle cell haemoglobin; neurodegenerative disease; heavy atom; Max Perutz; Cavendish Laboratory; John Kendrew; Francis Crick; thalassaemia; erythroleukaemia cells; HeLa; Alzheimer’s disease; Huntington’s disease
Photographs:Author: The Royal Society
Title: Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2023 winner
Reference The Royal Society 26 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni - Awards & Prizes
Subject: Tiago Branco is the 2023 recipient of The Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal and Lecture in recognition of his research into molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neuronal computation.
Keywords: Tiago Branco; Francis Crick Medal; neuronal computation; animal decision behaviour; award; alumni; Royal Society
Photographs:Author: Breakthrough Prize
Title: Winners of the 2023 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences, Mathematics and Fundamental Physics announced
Reference Breakthrough Prize 23 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni - Awards & Prizes
Subject: Anthony Hyman has been jointly awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences. Anthony, along with Clifford Brangwynne, discovered an entirely new mechanism for cellular organisation that concentrates cellular interactions between proteins and other biomolecules in membraneless droplets
Keywords: Breakthrough Prize; Anthony A. Hyman; Life Sciences Prize; “Oscars of Science”; Award; Priscilla Chan; Mark Zuckerberg; Alumni
Photographs:Author: Roche, Elise
Title: The art of being a nutraceuticals scientist
Reference Food Matters live 28 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Alumni- Career Structure
Subject: Miriam Ferrer discusses her career to date, including her time at the LMB and how her passion for science was ignited by a documentary about DNA’s double helix
Keywords: Miriam Ferrer; Cambridge Nutraceuticals; supplements; double helix; genetic engineering; BRCA1; Abcam; Alumni; career
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Independent
Title: Kelly Nguyen earns Colworth Medal
Reference Cambridge Independent, 19 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Awards and prizes
Subject: Kelly Ngyuyen awarded the Colworth medal by the Biochemical Society 2024
Keywords: Kelly Ngyuyen Colworth Medal Biochemical Society Kiyoshi Nagai Telomeres
Photographs: Kelly Nguyen LMB group photoAuthor: Mike Scialom
Title: Bicycle therapeutics and Novarts in $1.7bn cancer remedies goal
Reference Cambridge Independent 5 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Biotechnology company
Subject: Bicycle Therapeutics collaboration with Novartis to discover and develop multiple targeted radiogand therapies in oncology
Keywords: Bicycle Therapeutics Novartis Oncology Greg winter Christian Heinis
Photographs: Kevin lee (CEO)Author: Paul Brackley
Title: TB treatment time could be slashed by heartburn drugs
Reference Cambridge Independent 08 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Heartburn drugs could shorten treatment of TB
Keywords: Lalita Ramakrishnan TB Heartburn
Photographs: Lalita Ramakrishnan MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: Brown fat breakthrough could aid obesity and diabetes
Reference Cambridge Independent 7 June 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Alumni; Science
Subject: Significant breakthrough made in search for treatments for obesity and diabetes.
Keywords: Paul Brackley Brown fat Diabetes Edmund Kunji
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Independent
Title: Alzheimers’s award for LMB scientist
Reference Cambridge independent 22 February 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Awards and prizes; Science
Subject: Benjamin won Alzheimer’s award in 2022 for outstanding research in neurodegenerative diseases
Keywords: Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon Alzheimer’s Neurodegenerative Award
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor:
Title: First map of insect larva brain is a ‘landmark achievement’
Reference Cambridge Independent 15 March 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: The first map to show every neuron in the brain of fruit fly larva and how they are wired as been created by LMB scientists.
Keywords: Fruit Fly Marta Zlatic Albert Cardona Brain
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB pays tribute to Teresa
Reference Cambridge Independent 25 January 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Archive; Obituary
Subject: The funeral of Teresa Wallman, the archive assistant from the LMB takes place at St Lawrence Roman catholic Church, Cambridge.
Keywords: Teresa Wallman Archive assistant Funeral
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Brackley
Title: £6m electron microscope at MRC Laboratory of molecular Biology in Cambridge among governments £103m world Class Labs investment
Reference Cambridge independent 19 May 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science; Politics
Subject: Cryro electron Microscope that enables proteins to be seen in atomic detail has been installed as part of £103m government investment
Keywords: Cryo-electron microscope Jan Lowe Secretary of State Chloe Smith
Photographs: Keith Heppe;Author: Paul Brackley
Title: LMB discovery over receptors could change neuroscience
Reference Cambridge independent 6 April 2023
Year: 2023
Type: Science
Subject: Receptors play a critical role in mediating signals in our brains ensuring proper function of the CNS
Keywords: Receptors Central Nervous system Neurobiology GABA
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: Cambridge researchers dominate Microbiology Society 2023 Prizes
Reference Cambridge Independent, 30 November 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science; Awards & prizes
Subject: Cambridge researchers have won 3 of the 6 prestigious awards from the microbiology Society. Group Leader of Structural studies Dr Tanmay Bharat won the 2023 Fleming prize.
Keywords: Microbiology Society Dr Tanmay Bharat Fleming prize HIV Covid-19
Photographs: MRC-LMB Cambridge UniversityAuthor: Mike Scialom
Title: Constructive Bio gets $15m to ‘write genomes from scratch’
Reference Cambridge Independent 17 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Technology Transfer; Science
Subject: Constructive Bio are producing synthetic genomes and reprogramming the genetic code of living organisms. It has launched with the $15m in seed investment.
Keywords: Constructive Bio $15 Million Professor Jason Chin Genetic code
Photographs: Keith HeppellAuthor: Cambridge Independent
Title: LMB researcher wins Eppendorf Award for young scientists following breakthroughs
Reference Cambridge independent 27 July 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Awards and prizes; Science
Subject: Kelly Nguyen group leader of Structural Studies has won the Eppendorf award for her postdoctoral research on the spliceosome and the role of telomeres in human diseases.
Keywords: Kelly Nguyen Telomere Spliceosome Award Cryo-EM
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: LMB determines structures of filaments found in parkinson’s
Reference Cambridge independent 28 October 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Science
Subject: Filaments that form in the brains of individuals with Parkinson's and Dementia with lewy bodies have been made. They used Cyro-EM to determine the structure of the filaments.
Keywords: Filaments Parkinson’s Dementia Lewy bodies Cyro-EM Alpa-synuclein
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: Clive Cookson
Title: Cambridge start up aims to rewrite the code of life
Reference Financial Times 14 August 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Biotechnology and technology transfer; Science
Subject: Spin out company Constructive Bio set up by Jason Chin will rewrite the genetic code of bacteria, enabling the microbes to make new materials, from drugs to biodegradable plastics.
Keywords: Constructive Bio Genetic code Jason Chin Reprogramming DNA Microbes
Photographs: Jason ChinAuthor: Paul Buckley
Title: Synthetic Organisms created using new genetic language
Reference Cambridge independent 2 November 2022
Year: 2022
Type: DNA-Structure; Science
Subject: The first synthetic organism to use a different genetic language to the rest of life on earth has been created. The achievement represents a new paradigm that protects engineered organisms from natural invaders.
Keywords: Synthetic Organisms DNA RNA Genetic code
Photographs: MRC LMBAuthor: MRC LMS institute news
Title: Holgar karmer obituary
Reference MRC LMS Institute News 23 September 2022
Year: 2022
Type: Obituary
Subject: Dr Holger Kramer died suddenly on 23 August 2022. He was appointed head of Mass Spectrometry at the LMB after leaving Mass spectometry for 5 years at LMS.
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry London Institute of Medical Sciences Proteomics Facility Holger Kramer
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