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.
John Kendrick-Jones, LMB emeritus scientist from the Structural Studies Division, and David Komander, from the LMB’s PNAC Division, have been named in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) list of new members announced on 7th May 2014.
EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions, and EMBO membership is a lifetime honour.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, visited the LMB this morning to announce details of the Government’s long-term plan for science capital investment.
Mr Osborne was welcomed by the LMB Director, Hugh Pelham, and shown some of the world-class facilities in the Laboratory, which was opened by Her Majesty The Queen last May.
In his speech, the Chancellor announced that he was committing long-term funding to science, which was vital to attract researchers and investment.
Paul Elliott, from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division, has won the prestigious Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award 2015 for Cell Signalling, for his molecular insights into signal transduction processes.
The Biochemical Society exists to advance molecular and cellular biosciences, and with over 6000 members, is the largest discipline-based learned society in the biosciences.
Stanley B. Prusiner, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, will give the 2013 Francis Crick Lecture on Friday 11th April at 3.00pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
Stanley completed his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
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.