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15 May 2018

David-Paul Minde wins Thermo Scientific TMT Gold Research Award

We are very pleased to announce that Dr David-Paul Minde has won the 2018 Thermo Scientific TMT Research Award (Gold Level).David-Paul works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics with Professor Kathryn Lilley in the Department of Biochemistry. His research explores protein dynamics using a variety of techniques. During…

14 May 2018

Athena SWAN Bronze Award

The Department has successfully competed for an Athena SWAN Bronze Award.We are delighted to announce that our recent submission for a Bronze Athena SWAN award was successful. Overall, the success rate for Bronze Awards was 58% in the recent round, which highlights how high the targets were to attain this award.This remarkable achievement was led b…

4 May 2018

Mairi Kilkenny commended for undergraduate supervision

Congratulations to Dr Mairi Kilkenny on being commended for undergraduate supervision.Dr Mairi Kilkenny, a Senior Research Associate in the Pellegrini Group and Teaching Fellow/Director of Studies at St. Catharine's College, has been commended in the category of Undergraduate Supervisor (Science and Technology) in the Cambridge University Students'…

23 Apr 2018

Qkine backed by Cambridge Enterprise and a quintet of angels

Qkine Ltd, an embedded company in our Department, has closed its seed investment round supported by Cambridge Enterprise and a team of five angels.Qkine is a specialist manufacturer of proteins that are used for control of stem cell growth and differentiation. The backing of this strong team of experienced Angels will drive Qkine forward to establi…

20 Apr 2018

Marko Hyvönen announced as BBSRC Innovator of the Year finalist

Dr Marko Hyvönen has been announced as a finalist in the BBSRC Innovator of the Year competition.The shortlisted finalists will now compete to be named Innovator of the Year 2018 in London on the 16th May. Dr Hyvönen will be competing in the Commercial Impact category with his innovations in growth factor production.Dr Hyvönen said: "I am very grat…

20 Apr 2018

DNA binding mechanisms for promiscuous transcription factors

The Taipale Group have published a new research article in the journal eLife.DNA is the blueprint for life. It carries the genetic instructions required for all cells to produce proteins and some other molecules necessary for them to fulfil their functions, and for them to grow, develop and reproduce. These genetic instructions are contained within…

20 Apr 2018

Jan Lyczakowski recognised for excellence in applied research

We are pleased to announce that Jan Lyczakowski has been presented with a Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Award in recognition of excellence in applied research.After completing a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan moved to Cambridge to study for a PhD as part of the…

20 Apr 2018

Micro- and nano-structured electrodes increase current output in biological solar cells

The Howe Group and collaborators have published a new paper in Nature Communications.Tobias Wenzel, Daniel Haertter, and Ulli Steiner (now at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland) of the Cavendish Laboratory, collaborating with Paolo Bombelli and Chris Howe of the Biochemistry Department, have published a paper using 3D-structured el…

20 Apr 2018

Dr Qian Wu to receive Early Career Research Award

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Qian Wu is to be awarded the Biochemical Society's Early Career Research Award (Signalling Category) in 2019.In 2007, after completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol, Qian joined Professor Sir Tom Blundell's laboratory in our Department, first as a PhD student and then as a postdoctoral…

20 Apr 2018

Titan Krios cryo-electron microscope commissioned

We are very happy to announce that the installation of our Titan Krios cryo-electron microscope has finally been completed.The new microscope has passed all site acceptance tests, and the optics, electronics and mechanics are performing well within their required specifications. We have already acquired a test dataset with the Falcon 3 EC detector,…

20 Apr 2018

Putting the brakes on blood clots

The Farndale Group have published a new paper in the journal Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis.The complications associated with cardiovascular disease are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world. In healthy blood vessels, blood cells and platelets circulate freely. In unhealthy blood vessels, fatty deposits …

20 Apr 2018

Biochemistry Science Day 2018

How Cells Sense the World. 11am-3pm, Saturday 17th March. Hopkins Building, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, UK.The different cell types in our body and brain help us sense the world around us. As part of the Cambridge Science Festival, visit our Department and become a scientist for the day to discover how we and our cells see light, detect smell and…

20 Apr 2018

Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease

Focused Meeting, 9-12 July 2018, Clare College, Cambridge, UK.Small G proteins regulate a plethora of cell signalling pathways, thus impacting on most biological processes. As a result of their broad-spread cellular influence, the deregulation of these proteins and their pathways often results in disease, especially cancer.The interest, both academ…

19 Apr 2018

Fil1 protein is the key to fission yeast survival during amino acid starvation

The Mata Group, and collaborators from University College London, have published a new paper in the journal PNAS.Proteins are large biological molecules consisting of one or more chains of amino acid building blocks that perform a vast array of functions within all life. In the broadest of terms, the process through which cells create proteins from…

19 Apr 2018

Dr Martin Welch awarded GCRF Networking Grant

Dr Martin Welch, and his collaborator Dr Anthony Sifuna, have been awarded a GCRF Networking Grant.Dr Martin Welch, and his collaborator Dr Anthony Sifuna from the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya, have been awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences' Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Networking Grant for their pr…