LMB Alumni News

Inja Radman discusses her career so far with Women Ahead of Their Time (WATT), including the “fantastic time” she spent as a PhD student and Investigator Scientist in Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division. More…

Former PhD student, Emma Werner, from Felix Randow’s group, explains her 2021 Springer Nature journal publication on antibacterial cell-autonomous immunity with a short video, ‘Salmonella and me’, which was selected as a Top 10 Finalist. Congratulations, Emma! More…

Ruth Lehmann is the 2022 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, given to women with outstanding research accomplishments and established history of mentorship of women in science. Ruth was a Postdoctoral Visitor with Michael Wilcox and Peter Lawrence in the Cell Biology Division, and is now the Director of the Whitehead Institute for […]

Sidney Altman was a ground-breaking scientist in the field of RNA biology, whose discovery of catalytic properties of RNA led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989. His first steps to this discovery began at the LMB, where he worked alongside Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick, research that led to the […]

Stephen Wallace has been awarded The Colworth Medal, given by The Biochemical Society to recognise outstanding research by a biochemist within 10 years of PhD completion. Stephen was a Career Development Fellow in Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, and now is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology at […]

Kiyoshi Nagai was a preeminent researcher at the LMB for over thirty years during which he was a global leader in the field of spliceosome research. His work culminated in a comprehensive understanding of how the spliceosome catalyses the intrinsic process of gene splicing within eukaryotic cells. His Royal Society Biographical Memoir, written by Andy […]