Madeline Lancaster appointed Joint Head of the Cell Biology Division
Madeline Lancaster has been announced as the new Joint Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division.
Julian Sale appointed Joint Head of the PNAC Division
Group Leader Julian Sale has been announced as the new Joint Head of the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division.
Leo James, Greg Jefferis and Marta Zlatic elected to Royal Society
Leo James, Greg Jefferis and Marta Zlatic, all Group Leaders at the LMB, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society.
Sortera Bio spins out of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to pioneer new frontiers in biologics discovery
New UK-based biotechnology company launched to realise therapeutic potential of deep screening technology developed at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB).
Whole brain connectome of fruit fly is most complex brain ever mapped
The whole brain connectome of the Drosophila fruit fly is the first complete synaptic resolution wiring map of the brain of an adult animal capable of complex behaviours.
New therapy that targets and destroys tau tangles is a promising future Alzheimer’s disease treatment
Medical Research Council media release.
Greg Winter awarded Royal Society’s Copley Medal
Greg Winter, an Emeritus Scientist in the LMB’s PNAC Division, has been awarded The Royal Society’s oldest and most prestigious award, the Copley Medal, for pioneering protein engineering, especially antibody engineering for the successful production of therapeutic antibodies.
MRC researcher receives the 2019 Alzheimer’s Research UK Rising Star Award
Benjamin Falcon, a postdoctoral researcher in Michel Goedert’s group in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology's (LMB’s) Neurobiology Division, has been awarded the inaugural Alzheimer’s Research UK Rising Star Award in recognition of his significant contribution to biomedical dementia research as an early career researcher.
New system can identify drugs to target ‘undruggable’ enzymes critical in many diseases
A new drug discovery system allows scientists to specifically target members of an important family of enzymes, called phosphatases, which were previously considered mostly “undruggable”.
Greg Jefferis awarded Francis Crick Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society
Greg Jefferis, group leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been awarded the Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2018 in recognition of his discoveries concerning the developmental and functional logic of sensory information processing.
Queen's Birthday Honour for MRC scientist
Dr Richard Henderson, Molecular Biologist and Biophysicist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), was made a Companion of Honour in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to electron microscopy of biological molecules.
Michel Goedert is awarded The Brain Prize 2018
Michel Goedert from the LMB’s Neurobiology Division has been awarded the 2018 Brain Prize. Michel shares the award with fellow neuroscientists Bart De Strooper, Christian Haass and John Hardy “for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease”.
New technique ‘Trim-Away’ targets and rapidly destroys proteins in cells
A new technique, called ‘Trim-Away’, directly and quickly depletes proteins from any cell type in culture. As Trim-Away can also distinguish between different variants of the same protein, it opens up new opportunities to understand the role of proteins in disease, say the scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge and the Max Planck…
Richard Henderson wins 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Richard Henderson from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Richard shares the honour jointly with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”.