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- 1947: Death of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins FRS.
- 1949: Professor Frank Young FRS succeeds Professor Albert Charles Chibnall FRS as Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Department.
- 1949: First International Congress of Biochemistry.
- 1963: New Wellcome Wing of the Hopkins Building opens.
- 1975: Professor Hans Kornberg FRS succeeds Young as Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Department.
- 1985: Professor Richard Perham FRS succeeds Kornberg as Head of Department.
- 1985: NMR Facility established with Dr Peter Morris as its head.
- 1993: DNA Sequencing Facility established with Dr Peter Leadlay as its head.
- 1995: Professor Tom Blundell FRS succeeds Kornberg as Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry.
- 1996: Professor Tom Blundell FRS succeeds Perham as Head of Department.
- 1997: Sanger Building opens (cost £15M).
- 1997: Crystallography Facility established with Dr Ben Luisi as its head.
- 1999: Part III (4th year) Biochemistry teaching course introduced.
- 2000: Cambridge Centre for Proteomics established with Dr Kathryn Lilley as its head.
- 2002: Professor Jean Thomas FRS acts as Head of Department for one year.
- 2006: Professor Peter Leadlay FRS appointed to the second established Chair, the Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry.
- 2009: Professor Gerard Evan FRS succeeds Blundell as Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Department.
- 2011: Plaque unveiled commemorating the life and work of Hopkins.
- 2016: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility established with Dr Dima Chirgadze as its head.
- 2017: Professor Jussi Taipale succeeds Leadlay as Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry.
