“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…
An Austrian biotech firm that moved into Cambridge in 2008 has raised £7.2m (EUR 8m)
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…
Top science adviser calms budget fears
“The ring-fenced science funding promised in the UK Government’s 2004 10-year Framework may survive intact, according to the chief science adviser, John Beddington. But he admits to not being sure how this can be reconciled with the £600 million cuts announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday.” This article is no longer available from the source […]
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 […]