LMB and the Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia have set up the Geoffrey Grigg Traveling Fellowship aimed at enabling short scientific exchange visits between the two institutions. The Fellowship commemorates Geoffrey Grigg, who was an Australian scientist, highly influential in the fields of genetics, molecular biology and DNA research and a pioneer of Australia’s biotechnology industry. […]
Geoffrey Grigg Traveling Fellowship established between LMB and the Garvan Institute
Michael Hastings elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Dr Michael Hastings, group leader in LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Michael is distinguished for his highly influential contributions to our understanding of biological clocks through the study of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus in the brain. He was instrumental in unravelling the controls on […]
Heptares Therapeutics extends multi-fte chemistry collaboration with oxygen healthcare (o2h)
“Executives from Heptares Therapeutics (Welwyn Garden City, UK) and O2h (Cambridge, UK) announced today an extension of the agreement under which O2h provides multi-FTE -synthetic chemistry services to support discovery programmes at Heptares… Heptares is a drug discovery company focused on identifying novel drug candidates targeting validated G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in several disease areas. Heptares […]
UK-Europe collaborations harness biology for engineering
“Four new projects, announced today, will develop biological methods that offer a new approach to antibiotic production, power generation for extremely small mechanical components, new classes of medicines and innovative techniques to study cell biology. Teams comprising researchers from the UK and elsewhere in Europe will use synthetic biology to design systems with usefully engineered […]
EMBO Gold Medal 2010 recognizes Jason W. Chin
On the 10th May, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced the award of the EMBO Gold Medal 2010 to Jason W. Chin from LMB. Each year, EMBO awards the Gold Medal – widely regarded as one of the most prestigious life sciences awards in Europe – to recognize the outstanding contributions of young researchers […]
How do cells crawl?
“The amoeboid movement by which many types of cell crawl across surfaces has fascinated scientists ever since it was first observed using the earliest microscopes. Until recently, it has remained mysterious how cells extend the thin protrusion, known as a lamellipod, that enables them to move forward. In the past decade, however, extensive experimental work […]