MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health.
On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 March over 50 LMB scientists helped to showcase LMB research during the Cambridge Science Festival. The LMB had three exhibits at the Science Festival: ‘See Your Cells’ and ‘Virus Wars – Antibodies Strike Back’, in the Cambridge Corn Exchange, and ‘Crystal Clear’ in the Chemistry Department.
The founder of the LMB, Max Perutz, has been honoured on a Royal Mail stamp, as part of their ‘Remarkable Lives’ series. Max is one of 10 distinguished people honoured in the series, which commemorates significant people on the centenary of their birth. The stamps feature monochrome portraits of the subjects; the image of Max shows him with a diffractometer, in a photograph taken by Cambridge Newspapers in 1980.
Max Perutz was born in Vienna on 19 May 1914.
Michael Levitt will give the Kendrew Lecture 2014 on Tuesday 25th March at 16.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre.
The title of the lecture is ‘Birth & future of multi-scale modelling of macromolecules’. This event is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
Michael pioneered computational biology, setting up the conceptual and theoretical framework for a field that he is still involved in.
Rebecca Tomkins, from the LMB’s Human Resources (HR) Department, Operations Group has been announced as the 2014 winner of the Apprenticeship Award for Administration from The College of West Anglia. Rebecca received her certificate at the annual Apprentice Awards Ceremony held recently.
The College of West Anglia works with employers across Cambridgeshire to support students through apprenticeships whilst offering individuals the chance to develop knowledge and skills in the workplace.
The Rt Hon David Willetts, MP, Minister for Universities and Science, made a return visit to the new LMB building, accompanied by the Rt Hon Andrew Lansley, CBE, MP for South Cambridgeshire and Leader of the House of Commons, and Vicky Ford, MEP for the East of England on Friday 7th March.
Madan Babu, from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been announced as the recipient of the Protein Society’s 2014 Protein Science Young Investigator Award.
The Protein Science Young Investigator Award recognises important contributions to the study of proteins, by a scientist in the early stages of an independent career. It is named after The Protein Society’s academic journal, Protein Science. Madan is the first LMB scientist to be honoured with this prestigious award.