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.
Alan Brown joins the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School as a new group leader
LMB 2012-2017, Scientific Staff, Structural Studies
Alan Brown reflects on taking on the position of Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, his new research focus and how he first became interested in science. More…
Dr Varodom Charoensawan wins the 2018 FAOBMB Young Scientist Award
LMB 2007-2010, PhD student, Structural Studies
Dr Varodom Charoensawan, former PhD student in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been awarded the FAOBMB Young Scientist Award for his work on the systems regulating gene expression. The FAOBMB promotes biochemistry and molecular biology particularly in Asia and Oceania. More…
Sarah Teichmann awarded the Genetics Society’s 2018 Mary Lyon Medal
Sarah Teichmann, LMB 1996-1999 & 2001-2013, PhD student & programme leader, Structural Studies Division
Sarah Teichamnn has received the Genetics Society’s prestigious Mary Lyon Medal 2018 for “outstanding research” in understanding how the immune system works by using genomics and bioinformatics approaches. More…
Kim Nasmyth awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
LMB 1981-1987, scientific staff & group leader, Cell Biology
Professor Kim Nasmyth has been awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, which recognises transformative advances towards understanding living systems and extending human life. Kim has made hugely valuable contributions to the life sciences through his elucidation of the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer. More...
Ashok Venkitaraman Winner of 2017 Basser Global Prize
Ashok Venkitaraman, LMB 1988-1998, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Staff & Group Leader, PNAC
The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Centre has announced that Ashok Venkitaraman is the recipient of its fifth annual Basser Global Prize for helping explain how individuals with inherited BRCA2 mutations are predisposed to cancer. More…
Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Sydney Brenner, LMB 1957-1989, Senior Staff & Director, Cell Biology & Structural Studies
Sydney Brenner, one of the 20th Century’s greatest biologists and joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, talks to biologist and historian Matthew Cobb about his route into science, his 20 year-long collaboration with DNA pioneer Francis Crick and the foundation stones he laid for the new science of molecular biology and genetics. More…