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Dr Venki Ramakrishnan wins 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Published on 7 October, 2009

This year’s chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded to Dr Venki Ramakrishnan of LMB for “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”. Venki Ramakrishnan shares the honour with Thomas A. Steitz (Yale University) and Ada E. Yonath (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). The trio showed how the information encoded on strands of DNA […]

Human Antibodies developed for Treatment of Lupus and Anthrax

Published on 31 July, 2009

Two therapies with their roots in antibody technology developed in the LMB and the Scripps Research Institute* have recently emerged as promising new drug candidates to treat lupus, a potentially fatal autoimmune disease, and anthrax, a pressing concern due to bioterrorism. The drug candidates—belimumab (BENLYSTATM, formerly LumphoStat-B®), developed by Human Genome Sciences with GlaxoSmithKine as […]