LMB Alumni News

Sarah Caddy is interviewed about her work on COVID-19 during the pandemic and extending her work with Leo James’ group on how antibodies neutralise rotavirus and influenza to include coronaviruses. More…

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA recognises distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research by election to membership and has recently elected 120 members and 26 international members. Tony did his PhD at the LMB under John White, within Sydney Brenner’s C. elegans group, studying cell division in worms. Tony is now […]

Kim, who is currently the Whitley Chair at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, has made hugely valuable contributions to the life sciences. He revealed the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer. After […]

The Blavatnik Awards honour outstanding, innovative scientists at the early stages of their careers. Emmanuel has been recognised for his work on protein assembly and organisation. He will receive the prize at a formal ceremony at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in March. More…

Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses prompted him to think deeply about extracting the information contained in electron micrographs. As a result, he proposed a method for making 3D maps of biological specimens from the projected images given by micrographs. For this development and […]

Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an independent laboratory and joins the EMBO Young Investigator Network. More…