MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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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.
Staff at the LMB have raised over £1,700 from their annual Charity fundraiser for the Addenbrooke’s Dialysis Centre in memory of former colleague Michael Neuberger, who passed away in late 2013. This cause was chosen by Michael’s wife Gill in appreciation of the care and support Michael received at the Centre, where he spent many hours over several months during 2013.
Anne Bertolotti, from the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been announced as the British Society for Cell Biology 2014 Hooke Medal winner.
The Hooke Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding cell biologist working in the UK, who has been working as a principal research scientist for less than 10 years. Previous LMB winners include Ben Nichols and Matthew Freeman.
Anne has been a group leader at the LMB since 2006.
Professor Nikolaus Pfanner from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany, will deliver the 2014 Feldberg Prize Lecture on Thursday January 23rd at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is “The mitochondrial machinery for transport and assembly of proteins.” The lecture is open to anyone locally who is interested in attending.
Nikolaus studied medicine at the University of Munich and completed his M.D.
KJ Patel, from the LMB’s PNAC Division, has been awarded the Award of Merit for his ‘revolutionary work on aldehyde toxicity in Fanconi anemia hematopoietic cells’ by the Board of Directors of the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund.
Fanconi Anemia (FA) is a rare, cancer-predisposing disorder affecting about 150 or more families in the UK (the true extent is unknown). FA is present at birth, and causes progressive bone marrow failure.
Fred Sanger, double Nobel Laureate and founding member of the LMB in 1962, died on Tuesday 19 November, at the age of 95. He was an extremely modest and self-effacing man whose contributions have made an extraordinary impact on molecular biology.
Fred was born on August 13, 1918 in Rendcombe in Gloucestershire. His father was a GP and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy cotton manufacturer.