Department of Biochemistry

Our emeritus professor, George Salmond has been awarded the Marjory Stephenson Prize for 2025 from the Microbiology Society . Professor Salmond spent his distinguished career studying the molecular genetics of cell division, developing genetic tools to control the growth of bacteria and working on the discovery, analysis...

Biochemistry PhD student Joshua Lawrence has received the Katharine Burr Blodgett Award for his doctoral research. This prize recognises outstanding work by a recent PhD graduate in the field of colloid and interface science. The prize is named in honour of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who was the first woman to receive a PhD...

An article published in Nature Biotechnology by Katrin Fischer et al. from Florian Hollfelder ’s group in collaboration with the groups of James Thaventhiran , Marko Hyvonen , Nick Matheson and Charlotte Deane establishes a new, generalised technology for finding potentially therapeutic antibodies in response to infectious...

A feature on the Cambridge University website explores the Gallop Lab's research on how the actin cytoskeleton is involved in changing the shape of cells and moving them around as an embryo develops into a fully-formed organism, and how frogs can help people with rare diseases.