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.
Yudan Ren: Returning to research after a career break
LMB 2012-2015, Career Development Fellow, PNAC
The Royal Society profiles Yudan Ren, covering her education in rural China, her decision to take a career break to care for family, and how she re-established an academic career following this. Yudan now holds a position at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, aided by the Royal Society Daphne Jackson Fellowship which supports people returning to research from a career break. More…
Wesley Sundquist awarded 2024 Horwitz Prize together with Scott Emr for discovering the ESCRT pathway
LMB 1988 – 1992, Scientific Visitor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Structural Studies
Congratulations to Wesley Sundquist, awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize together with Scott Emr for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works. Wes and colleagues discovered how and why ESCRT complexes are required for HIV replication and how the ESCRT pathway mediates the final step of cell division. More…
John Rubinstein elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
LMB 1998-1999, Ph.D. Student, PNAC; 2002-2003, Postdoctoral Staff, Structural Studies
Congratulations to John Rubinstein who has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, which recognises distinguished researchers in numerous branches of learning who have made significant contributions in the arts, the humanities, and the sciences. John Rubinstein is based at the Hospital for Sick Children Institute, where he works in the Molecular Medicine Program to advance methods in electron cryo-microscopy. More…
Terry Rabbitts elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
LMB 1973-2006, Scientific Staff, Group Leader, Head of PNAC Division
Congratulations to Terry Rabbitts, elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians for “applying molecular biology to human disease and the development of new therapeutics”.
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David Ish-Horowicz (1948-2024)
LMB 1969-1973, Ph.D. student, Scientific Staff, Cell Biology
The Francis Crick Institute pay tribute to David Ish-Horowicz, a leading figure in the field of developmental genetics. David completed Ph.D. studies at the LMB, and later led his own research group at the Imperial Cancer Fund (later Cancer Research UK). Since 2013, he has been affiliated with University College London. His research provided several breakthroughs in understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms which establish, maintain and elaborate spatial organisation in vivo, particularly in the model Drosophila. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2002. More…
Maria Grazia Spillantini and Benjamin Podbilewicz elected to EMBO
Grazia Spillantini: LMB 1987-1996, Ph.D. Student, Visitor, Scientific Staff, Director’s Division & Neurobiology
Podbilewicz: LMB 1991-1996, Postdoctoral Visitor, Cell Biology
Congratulations to LMB alumni Maria Grazia Spillantini and Benjamin Podbilewicz who are two of 120 researchers elected to EMBO membership in the organisation’s 60th year. Maria is Professor of Molecular Neurology at the Clinical School of the University of Cambridge where she researches the molecular neuropathology of neurodegenerative diseases characterised by tau and alpha-synuclein aggregates. Benjamin is Professor at the Department of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology where he researches how cells fuse to form large multinucleate cells, and how organs form in animals. More…