UK consortium of leading protein production laboratories provide protein reagents for SARS-CoV-2 research for free, in an Open Science initiative led by Wellcome and UKRI.
LMB News
William Schafer elected Fellow of Royal Society
This year’s Royal Society fellows include LMB group leader William Schafer and alumna Sarah Teichmann. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
Engaging with the public while social distancing
Throughout March, 28 MRC-funded scientists, including three from the LMB, took part in the Medical Research Zone of I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here
Daffodils announce LMB staff’s fundraising for Marie Curie
Led by Freda Chapman at the LMB, our staff raised £695 for Marie Curie, a registered charitable organisation, which provides care and support to people with terminal illnesses and their families.
Paul Dear (1962 – 2020)
Paul Dear, former Group Leader in the LMB’s PNAC Division, died on Wednesday 11th March 2020. Paul was most interested in developing new methods and technologies to improve research and information gathering, particularly in genomics.
Scientific collaboration to focus on search for new, improved detectors for low energy cryo-EM
New multi-million-pound initiative between The Rosalind Franklin Institute and the LMB aims to develop a new detector to produce better data and make cryo-EM more accessible.