John Sutherland, from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division, has been awarded the Royal Society’s Darwin Medal. John receives the medal “in recognition of his novel and convincing work on prebiotic chemistry, in particular his solution to the central problem of nucleoside synthesis”. The Darwin Medal is awarded biennially for “work of acknowledged […]
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LMB Alumni from around the world reunited for 2 day Symposium
The LMB welcomed nearly 600 of its alumni back to a two-day symposium, ‘Molecular Biology at 50 and Beyond’, held in its new building, on 11th and 12th July. Along with current group leaders, they gathered for a mixture of talks covering scientific, historical and forward looking topics, by current LMB group leaders and past […]
Crystal Growing Competition: Winning schools visit the LMB
Each year, pupils from all over the East of England compete to grow the best crystal of potash alum possible, in the Eastern Region Crystal Growing Competition. This year, during the International Year of Crystallography, the competition was hugely popular, with nearly 80 schools participating in two age groups. The top prize in Key Stage […]
2014 César Milstein Lecture to be given by Peter Walter
Professor Peter Walter will give the 2014 Milstein Lecture on Monday 30 June 2014 at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture, entitled “Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease” is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Peter is currently Professor at the Department of Biochemistry […]
What next after Academia? Three ways to forge a career away from the bench
A recent event held at the LMB showed how a PhD in science can lead to various exciting careers outside the lab, including working in Science Policy, Communications and Administration. The joint LMB-Cambridge AWiSE event, which took place on Wednesday 4th June, attracted a large audience of PhD students and post-docs from around Cambridge to […]
LMB and AstraZeneca announce plan to launch joint research fund
The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and AstraZeneca are today announcing a plan for a research fund to facilitate collaboration between LMB and AstraZeneca and MedImmune. The fund will support a range of pre-clinical research projects aimed at better understanding fundamental biology and disease. Under the planned collaboration, the MRC LMB and AstraZeneca would also […]