Author: Overbye, Dennis
Title: 3 win Nobel for ribosome research
Reference New York Times, 7 October 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Three scientists who showed how the information encoded on strands of DNA is translated into thousands of proteins that make up living matter will share the 2009 Nobel prize for Chemistry, including Venkatraman Ramakrishnan from LMB
Keywords: Yasir Arafat; Jeremy M. Berg; Joachim Frank; Isabel Kershner; Thomas Lane; Peter Moore; Shimon Peres; Yitzhak Rabin; Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals; ribosome; Thomas A. Steitz; Ada E. Yonath
Photographs: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; Thomas Steitz; Ada Yonath; Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in LMB lab; Ada Yonath at Weizmann; Thomas Stetiz in labAuthor: Sample, Ian
Title: Cambridge chemist wins Nobel prize for showing how proteins are made in cells
Reference The Guardian, 7 October 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel prize for chemistry with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for elucidating how cells make proteins
Keywords: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; ribosome; Thomas Steitz; Ada Yonath
Photographs: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; Thomas Steitz; Ada YonathAuthor: AlphaGalileo Foundation
Title: The 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath
Reference AlphaGalileo, 7 October 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath
Keywords: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; ribosome; Thomas A. Steitz; Ada E. Yonath
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Neuroscience
Title: Cambridge neuroscientist elected as member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Reference Cambridge Neuroscience, 19 October 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: William Schafer from LMB elected a member of EMBO
Keywords: EMBO; William Schafer
Photographs: William SchaferAuthor: Freeman, Matthew
Title: Top science adviser calms budget fears
Reference New Scientist, 11 December 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Funding
Subject: LMB’s Matthew Freeman writes about the ring-fenced science funding promised in the UK Government’s 2004 framework and recent funding pronouncements
Keywords: John Beddington; British National Space Centre; Lord Browne; Campaign for Science and Engineering; Paul Drayson; Matthew Freeman; Science and Technology Facilities Council
Photographs:Author: Boström, Majsan
Title: A Nobel job
Reference SR International - Radio Sweden, 14 December 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Patric Nilsson, who works for the Swedish Foreign Ministry, was paired up with Venkatraman Ramakirshnan at the recent Nobel celebrations
Keywords: Monica Jagerman; Patric Nilsson, Nobel Foundation; Venkatraman Ramakirshnan; ribosome; Michael Sohlman; Swedish Foreign Ministry
Photographs: Patric Nilsson in his office; Venkatraman RamakirshnanAuthor: Fountain, Ben
Title: Austrian antibody firm proves star power with EUR 8million round
Reference Business Weekly, 6 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Biotechnology Companies
Subject: f-star, which moved to the Babraham Research campus in order to build closer links to LMB, has raised £7.2m
Keywords: Aescap Venture; AstraZeneca; Atlas Venture; Babraham Research campus; Cambridge Antibody Technology; Domantis; f-star; Kevin Fitzgerald; GSK; Humira; Modular Antibody Technology; MP Healthcare Venture Management (MPH); Merck Serono Ventures; Novo Ventures; TVM Capital; Gregory Winter
Photographs: Fcabs computer imageAuthor: The Medical News
Title: 3D structure of P13Kdelta: an important drug target for a wide range of diseases
Reference The Medical News, 12 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Science
Subject: Pioneering work led by Roger Williams of LMB, explains for the first time the structure-based design of highly selective inhibitors of P13Kdelta
Keywords: Intellikine; Merck-Serono Research Center; Nature Chemical Biology; P13Kdelta (p110delta); Christian Rommel; Kevin Shokat; University of California, San Francisco; Roger Williams
Photographs:Author: Number10.gov.uk
Title: Nobel prize winners visit Downing Street
Reference Number10.gov.uk, 18 January 2010
Year: 2010
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: British winners of the Nobel prize have gathered at Downing Street to celebrate their achievements, including Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and John Walker
Keywords: Prime Minister [Gordon Brown]; [Sarah Brown]; Martin Evans; John Hume; Tim Hunt; Venkatraman Ramakrishnan; Amartya Kumar Sen; Lord Trimble; John Walker
Photographs: The PM with some of the guests at dinnerAuthor: MRC Network
Title: MRC scientist wins 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Reference MRC Network, November/December 2009, pp.2-4
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his research into the structure and function of the ribosome. Network caught up with him to find out about his impressive achievement
Keywords: antibiotics; Francis Crick; Richard Henderson; Hugh Huxley; Peter Moore; Michael [Neuberger]; Venki Ramakrishnan; Rib-X Pharmaceuticals; ribosome; Thomas A. Steitz; James Watson; Greg Winter; Ada E. Yonath
Photographs: Venki Ramakrishnan; ribosome computer graphicAuthor: MRC Network
Title: Change of leadership at MRC Cancer Cell Unit
Reference MRC Network, January/February 2010, p.21
Year: 2010
Type: Biographical
Subject: LMB alumnus Ron Laskey steps down as Director of the MRC Cancer Cell Unit. (Brief outline of Laskey’s career)
Keywords: MRC Cancer Cell Unit; Ron Laskey; Ashok Venkitaraman
Photographs: Ron LaskeyAuthor: MRC Network
Title: EMBO honours MRC scientists
Reference MRC Network, November/December 2009, p.20
Year: 2009
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: William Schafer is listed among several MRC scientists elected as members of the European Molecular Biology Organization for 2009
Keywords: EMBO; Tariq Enver; Elizabeth Fisher; Jonathan Flint; Ronald Hay; Anne O’Garra; Stephen O’Rahilly; Roger Patient; David Porteous; William Schafer; Stephen Smerdon; Robert J. White
Photographs: Tariq EnverAuthor: MRC Network
Title: NOBELini Awards 2009
Reference MRC Network, November/December 2009, p.16
Year: 2009
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Article celebrating the NOBELini Awards 2009. (Design students team up with young scientists to celebrate scientific discovery). LMB’s Ev Yemeni is among the winners
Keywords: Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design; Ioannis Gousias; Berit Greinke; Celine Marcq; Elaine Ng; NMRC Clinical Sciences Centre; OBELini Awards; Jay Stone
Photographs: Elaine Ng and Ioannis Gousias’ entry (an interactive play mat)Author: MRC Network
Title: Cambridge Darwin Festival and 800th Anniversary Garden Party
Reference MRC Network, September/October 2009, pp.26-27
Year: 2009
Type: Events/Celebrations; P.R.
Subject: LMB help sponsor the Cambridge Darwin Festival (at which LMB alumnus Cynthia Kenyon is a speaker), and hosts its own stand at Cambridge University’s 800th anniversary garden party
Keywords: David Attenborough; Francis Crick; Charles Darwin; Richard Dawkins; DNA; Steve Jones; Cynthia Kenyon; Liz Madgett; Martin Rees; University of Cambridge; Harold Varmus; James Watson
Photographs:Author: MRC Network
Title: The MRC goes east
Reference MRC Network, September/October 2009,
Year: 2009
Type: Events/Celebrations; Talks
Subject: MRC scientists are to speak at an MRC showcase in Japan, including Greg Winter of LMB
Keywords: Leszek Borysiewicz; British Embassy; Justin Bryans; Philip Cohen; Robert Millar; MRC Technology; Austin Smith; Dave Tapolczay; Ashok Venkitaraman; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: MRC Network
Title: Industry update: New MRC spin-out company launched
Reference MRC Network, November/December 2009, p.7
Year: 2009
Type: P.R.
Subject: A new biotechnology company, Bicycle Therapeutics, has been established based on technology developed at the LMB
Keywords: Bicycle Therapeutics; Cambridge Antibody Technology; drugs; Christian Heinis; Hugh Pelham; John Tite; Gregory Winter
Photographs:Author: Turney, Jon
Title: Book of the week: Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets
Reference Times Higher Education, 23 November 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Book Review
Subject: Jon Turney reviews Robert Olby’s biography of Francis Crick, “Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets”
Keywords: John Desmond Bernal; Sydney Brenner; Francis Crick; DNA; Georg Freisel; Horace Judson; Aaron Klug; Christof Koch; Robert Olby; Leslie Orgel; Matt Ridley; Jon Turney; James Watson
Photographs:Author: Weber, Kate
Title: Product of a “Nobel Prize Plantation”
Reference The Triple Helix, Issue 6: Lent 2009 - 800th Anniversary Edition, p.29
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize; Historical - LMB History
Subject: Profile of Aaron Klug’s work in the context of the Nobel Prize, written by LMB scientist Kate Weber
Keywords: Francis Crick; electron microscopy; Aaron Klug; Roger Kornberg; Cesar Milstein; Nobel Prize; nucleosome; Max Perutz; Royal Society; tRNA; Kate Weber
Photographs: Aaron Klug portrait; Aaron Klug with Max Perutz and Cesar MilsteinAuthor: Metcalfe, Ciara
Title: A Day in the Life of a PhD Student
Reference The Triple Helix, Issue 6: Lent 2009 - 800th Anniversary Edition, p.28
Year: 2009
Type: Biographical
Subject: LMB PhD student Ciara Metcalfe writes about her working day at the lab
Keywords: [Mariann] Bienz; canteen; Dishevelled; Ciara Metcalfe; PhD
Photographs: Ciara Metcalfe at work; LMB at nightAuthor: Kennedy, James
Title: Conversations with Cambridge Nobel Laureates
Reference The Triple Helix, Issue 6: Lent 2009 - 800th Anniversary Edition, pp.10-11
Year: 2009
Type: Nobel Prize; Biographical
Subject: John Sulston and John Walker talk about the Nobel Prize, their backgrounds, and their opinions on current topics in science.
Keywords: Biobank; Sydney Brenner; Cambridge; Celera Genomics; Francis Crick; Ian Fleming; Nobel Prize; Madison, Wisconsin; Max Perutz; religion; Fred Sanger; Sanger Centre; John Sulston; Vietnam; John Walker; Tony White
Photographs: John Sulston; detail of the Nobel Prize medalAuthor: Zhang, Yuemei
Title: Sanger Sequencing
Reference The Triple Helix, Issue 6: Lent 2009 - 800th Anniversary Edition, p.13
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: Brief article about the impact of Fred Sanger’s DNA sequencing method.
Keywords: DNA; Human Genome Project; Frederick Sanger; sequencing
Photographs: Metal double helix sculptureAuthor: MRC
Title: MRC technology behind new medical developments
Reference MRC News, 24 July 2009
Year: 2009
Type: P.R.
Subject: LMB monoclonal antibody research lies behind two recent announcements involving anthrax treatments and a new drug for lupus
Keywords: belimumab; Benlysta; Cambridge Antibody Technology; GlaxoSmithKline; Human Genome Sciences; Georges Kohler; Cesar Milstein; monoclonal antibodies; MRC Technology; Nobel Prize; Raxibacumab; Scripps Research Institute; Greg Winter
Photographs:Author: MRC
Title: Study reveals how Alzheimer’s spreads within the brain
Reference MRC News, 8 June 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Science
Subject: News of a study in mice demonstrating how tangles of a protein called tau can spread to the brain. LMB scientist Michel Goedert contributed to the study.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s; Michel Goedert; mice; Nature Cell Biology; tau; University of Basel; University of Tubingen
Photographs:Author: Wilson, Benji
Title: TV Review - The Secret Life of Your Body Clock (BBC Two) and Trouble the Water (More 4)
Reference The Telegraph, 24 February 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Review of BBC Two’s Horizon: The Secret Life of Your Body Clock, a programme LMB scientist Michael Hastings contributed to. (See recording HASTINGS-01-V).
Keywords: BBC Two; chronobiologists; Michael Hastings; Horizon; Russell Foster; Till Roenneberg; The Secret Life of Your Body Clock
Photographs: Till RoennebergAuthor: Sutcliffe, Tom
Title: Last Night’s Television - Timing isn’t everything
Reference The Independent, 25 February 2009
Year: 2009
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Review of BBC Two’s Horizon: The Secret Life of Your Body Clock, a programme LMB scientist Michael Hastings contributed to. (See recording HASTINGS-01-V).
Keywords: BBC Two; Michael Hastings; Horizon; The Secret Life of Your Body Clock
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