“Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri… ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year and are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati […]
Venki Ramakrishan chosen for ‘Padma Vibhushan’, India’s highest civilian award
Nobel Prize winners visit Downing Street
“British winners of the prestigious Nobel Prize have gathered at Downing Street to celebrate their achievements … Guests included recent winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, who received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry…” This article is no longer available from the source website: Number10.gov.uk, 18 […]
3D structure of PI3Kdelta: An important drug target for a wide range of diseases
“Intellikine announced today the publication of an article entitled, “The p110delta structure: mechanisms for selectivity and potency of new PI(3)K inhibitors,” now available as an advanced online publication at Nature Chemical Biology…The pioneering work was the result of a collaboration led by Roger Williams, Ph.D., Professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Medical […]
An Austrian biotech firm that moved into Cambridge in 2008 has raised £7.2m (EUR 8m)
“f-star, which has developed novel antibody engineering technology, moved to the Babraham Research campus in March 2008 in order to build closer links with the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge – an acknowledged world leader in antibody science.” More…
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 […]
A Nobel job
“Patric Nilsson, a 30-year-old diplomat, who normally works with persons in distress, accidents and evacuations for the Swedish Foreign Ministry, was paired up with Chemistry winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, professor with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K.” More…