Melina Schuh, from the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the EMBL Alumni John Kendrew Young Scientist Award for 2015. The award recognises excellence in science and/or science communication by any pre- or post-doctoral alumni of EMBL, up to 7 years after they have left EMBL. Melina was a PhD student in the EMBL […]
Melina Schuh awarded the EMBL Alumni John Kendrew Award 2015
Michel Goedert awarded the 2014 European Grand Prix for Research
Michel Goedert, Joint Head of the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been awarded the European Grand Prix for Research by the Foundation for Research on Alzheimer’s disease based in Paris. Michel has been awarded the Prize for “his major work on the importance of the tau pathway in the genesis of Alzheimer’s disease” and for “the […]
Sjors Scheres named by Nature as one of ten people who mattered in 2014
LMB group leader Sjors Scheres is profiled by Nature as one of its ten people of the year, for his work on bringing the cell’s molecular machines into sharper focus, with the use of cryo-EM. More…
LMB raises over £1,200 for “Mind in Cambridgeshire”
Staff at the LMB have raised over £1,200 from their annual charity fundraiser for Mind in Cambridgeshire, a dynamic, county-wide charity that supports local people in their recovery from mental health issues, promoting wellbeing and campaigning against stigma and discrimination. This cause was chosen to complement the work being done by the LMB’s Mental Health […]
Heptares Therapeutics granted key patents for GPCR-Focused Drug Discovery Platform
Heptares Therapeutics, a leading G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) structure-guided drug discovery company, has recently been granted multiple key patents in the USA. GPCRs are a superfamily of drug receptors linked to a wide range of human diseases and Heptares was founded in 2007 to develop and commercialise pioneering research from the LMB and the National […]
Golden grids for electron cryo-microscopy
Recent exciting advances in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) have allowed scientists to find very detailed structures of some proteins. Still, determining the structure of many proteins remains too difficult for cryo-EM, as the images are too noisy to use for structure determination. Lori Passmore and Chris Russo from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division have designed new […]