LMB Alumni News

Anthony Hyman has been jointly awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences. Anthony, along with Clifford Brangwynne, discovered an entirely new mechanism for cellular organisation that concentrates cellular interactions between proteins and other biomolecules in membraneless droplets. Their discovery helps to advance our fundamental knowledge of cellular organisation, and is likely to have impressive […]

Tiago Branco is the 2023 recipient of The Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal and Lecture in recognition of his research into molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neuronal computation, and his successes in linking these to decision behaviour in animals. This award is given in honour of Francis Crick and was endowed by Sydney Brenner, […]

Vernon Ingram, born in Germany, was a protein chemist who helped advance the field of protein crystallography and made important contributions to the understanding of human haemoglobin diseases. In 1952, he joined the MRC Unit for the Study of Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology), where he worked for […]

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 […]