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 […]
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KJ Patel gives prestigious Annual Herter Lecture at New York University
KJ Patel gave the 98th Christian A. Herter Lecture at the New York University School of Medicine. The lecture, entitled “The genetic basis of protection against genotoxic metabolites in mammals”, was given on Thursday 8th May 2014. The lectures, established in 1903, have previously been given by some of the most illustrious members of the […]
John Kendrick-Jones and David Komander elected to EMBO membership
John Kendrick-Jones, LMB emeritus scientist from the Structural Studies Division, and David Komander, from the LMB’s PNAC Division, have been named in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) list of new members announced on 7th May 2014. EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions, and EMBO membership […]
The Chancellor, George Osborne, visits the LMB in his support for science
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, visited the LMB this morning to announce details of the Government’s long-term plan for science capital investment. Mr Osborne was welcomed by the LMB Director, Hugh Pelham, and shown some of the world-class facilities in the Laboratory, which was opened by Her Majesty The Queen last May. In […]
Paul Elliott awarded a Biochemical Society 2015 Early Career Research Award
Paul Elliott, from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division, has won the prestigious Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award 2015 for Cell Signalling, for his molecular insights into signal transduction processes. The Biochemical Society exists to advance molecular and cellular biosciences, and with over 6000 members, is the largest discipline-based learned society […]
2013 Francis Crick Lecture to be given by Stanley B. Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, will give the 2013 Francis Crick Lecture on Friday 11th April at 3.00pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in […]