Lori A Passmore
Experience
From 2009 Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK
Joint Head of Structural Studies Division from 2024
Macromolecular Machines Involved in Regulating mRNA 3ʹ Ends
From 2006 Fellow Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge UK
Tutor from 2021
2004-2009 Career Development Fellow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Supervisors: Drs. Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson
Structural Studies of Complexes Involved in Initiation of Eukaryotic Translation
1999- 2004 Post-Doctoral Scientist and PhD Thesis The Institute of Cancer Research,
London, UK
Supervisor: Prof. David Barford
Structural and Functional Studies of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/
Cyclosome (APC)
1998-1999 Undergraduate Honours Thesis Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
UBC, Canada
Supervisor: Dr. Natalie Strynadka
Structure Determination of PSE-4 - A Bacterial β-Lactamase
1998 Research Assistant Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Bernhard Weber, January - August 1998
Investigations into Disease-Causing Mutations in the German Albino Population
1996-1997 Research Student Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Centre,
Vancouver, Canada
Supervisor: Dr. Rob Kay
Expression Cloning and Characterisation of Transforming Genes
Education
PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research (University of London), October 1999 – November 2003
Bachelor of Science, Honours Biochemistry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (Jan 1997 – May 1999) and University of Waterloo, Canada (Sept 1994 – May 1997)
Awards and Recognitions
2025 Chiron Lecturer, UC Berkeley
2023 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
2023 Pregl Colloquium Lecturer, Slovenia
2023 Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria
2022 Louise Johnson Lecture, University of Oxford
2021 Robert Greenberg Lecturer, University of Michigan
2020 Inaugural Elisa Izaurralde Award of the RNA Society
2019 Kjeldgaard Lecture, University of Aarhus
2018 Elected Member of EMBO
2016 Suffrage Science Award
2015 EMBO Young Investigator Award
Major Grants and Funding
2023 Wellcome Discovery Award
2017 ERC Consolidator Grant
2011 ERC Starting Grant