LMB scientist Dr Sarah Teichmann has received a ‘2009 Women of the Future’ award as ‘Science and Technology Woman of the Future’ for her major contribution to scientists’ interpretation of the human genome and an understanding of how evolution shapes the molecules and processes of life. Human (and other) genome projects are probably one of […]
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LMB wins green travel award
The MRC Units on the Addenbrooke’s campus, including LMB, have recently been awarded the “Workplace Travel Plan Award Certificate of Commitment” in recognition of their efforts to develop a travel plan to reduce the amount of travel generated by MRC’s activities. Speaking on behalf of LMB’s Green Committee, Dr Christine Barrie said “We are delighted […]
Lizzy Day wins BioTech YES Competition
Competition Winners Lizzy Day, Fan Cheng, Sarah Leigh-Brown, Harry Harris, Daniel Naujoks. Image courtesy BBSRCA team of early career scientists from Cambridge University and Imperial College London – led by Lizzy Day, a second year PhD student at LMB – won the 2009 Biotechnology YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme) title. This innovative competition aims to encourage […]
LMB scientist wheels out Bicycle Therapeutics
Based in Cambridge, UK, Bicycle Therapeutics, the latest LMB spin out, will combine the most desirable features of small molecules and biologics to create highly specific and stable drugs. Bicycle Therapeutics has developed a new novel technology platform using phage display to select peptidic sequences that are cyclized on a chemical core. Sir Gregory Winter […]
Jason Chin to present the annual Francis Crick Lecture for the Royal Society.
Dr Jason Chin, from the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) at LMB, has been chosen to present the annual Francis Crick Lecture for the Royal Society on 26 November 2009. In his Francis Crick prize lecture entitled “Reprogramming the code of life”, Dr Jason Chin will discuss the invention and synthetic evolution […]
EMBO Young Investigator Award for Madan Babu.
Dr Madan Babu has been selected as an EMBO Young Investigator. The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) set up their Young Investigator programme ten years ago which identifies some of Europe’s most promising and creative young life scientists. This year, the programme received 123 applications out of which 17 were selected. The 2009 EMBO Young […]