News

17 Apr 2018

Cambridge University Biological Society

The Department of Biochemistry is pleased to be sponsoring the University of Cambridge Biological Society for the 2017-2018 academic year.The Biological Society is a student-run society that hosts regular evening lectures, giving their members a taste of different fields of biology and the opportunity to discuss topical issues in an informal enviro…

17 Apr 2018

Gerard Evan talks pancreatic cancer research on talkRADIO

Professor Gerard Evan joined Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO to speak about pancreatic cancer.Professor Gerard Evan of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Dream Team joined Julia Hartley-Brewer on talkRADIO, Stand Up To Cancer partners, to talk pancreatic cancer, early warning signs, the randomness of cancer-causing mutations, and the future of cancer…

17 Apr 2018

Molecular patterns assist plant secondary cell wall assembly

The Dupree Group and colleagues from the University of Warwick have published a new paper in Nature Plants on the interaction between carbohydrate chains in the plant secondary cell wall.Plant cell walls consist of multiple layers: the middle lamella, a pectin-rich layer forming the interface between plant cells to hold them together; the primary c…

17 Apr 2018

Jussi Taipale - New Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry

We are pleased to welcome Professor Jussi Taipale to the Department, who joins us from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, as the new Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry.Continuing from a childhood of electronics, programming and taking things apart to investigate their internal workings, Professor Taipale began his scientific career at the Univ…

17 Apr 2018

Kathryn Lilley awarded the 2017 Juan Pablo Albar Proteome Pioneer Award

Congratulations to Kathryn Lilley who has received the 2017 Juan Pablo Albar Proteome Pioneer Award from the European Proteomics Association.This award honors a person with a leading and long-standing involvement in the promotion of the principles of sharing and integration of resources for the development of excellent research in the proteomics fi…

17 Apr 2018

Kathryn Lilley awarded Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag Research Award

Winners of the 2017 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award were celebrated at a Breakfast Workshop during the ASMS Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana on Monday 5th June 2017.The four recipients of the award were selected by a panel of judges from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Proteome Sciences LLC based on innovation and the potenti…

17 Apr 2018

Third Year Postgraduate Symposium 2017

The Department of Biochemistry 3rd Year Postgraduate Symposium was held on Tuesday 27th June 2017.Final year graduate students presented a summary of their work. The judges were impressed with the consistent quality of the presentations, reflecting the wide range of projects available within the Biochemistry Department. Prizes were awarded by the j…

17 Apr 2018

Tom Dendooven selected as a representative for the University at Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar

Mr Tom Dendooven has been selected as a representative of Cambridge University at the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar in December 2017.The University has been invited to select a candidate to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (SIYSS) in December 2017. This is a week-long event for young international scientists,…

17 Apr 2018

How we adapt to life at 5400m

Jules Griffin, James West and collaborators have published a paper in PNAS.Jules Griffin and James West of Biochemistry, with collaborators from PDN, UCL and Southampton, have published a paper in PNAS that addresses how Sherpas adapt to high altitudes faster than Westerners as part of the Xtreme Everest 2 expedition to Everest Basecamp.This study …

17 Apr 2018

A subcellular map of the human proteome

Kathryn Lilley, members of the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics and collaborators publish a human cell atlas in Science.Kathryn Lilley and members of the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics, with collaborators from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden publish a human cell atlas in Science, 11th May 2017. The authors present a comprehensive ima…

17 Apr 2018

Timo Kohler announced as one of the winners of the inaugural Scientist at Work photo competition

Congratulations to Timo Kohler (Hollfelder Lab) who has been announced as one of the winners of the inaugural Scientist at Work photo competition.This competition was set up by the Nature journal with the aim of capturing science on camera. Winners were decided by a panel of designers and journalists from Nature who looked for quality, creativity a…

17 Apr 2018

Dee Scadden awarded Teaching Excellence Award

Congratulations to Dee Scadden who has been awarded the 2018 Biochemical Society Teaching Excellence Award.The Teaching Excellence Award is awarded to recipients employed in higher education who employ innovative and effective approaches to teaching in biochemistry, successfully promoting student learning. The recipients support teaching beyond the…

17 Apr 2018

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility: Funding target achieved

The Cryo-EM Consortium has been awarded by the University the final tranche of funding needed to deliver phase two of the project.Phase two of the Cryo-EM project will allow the Consortium to complete the purchase of a second, high resolution 300kV FEI Krios microscope, complementing the 200kV instrument acquired at the end of 2016. The combination…

17 Apr 2018

Ben Luisi awarded ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council has announced the awarding of its Advanced Grants to 231 top researchers in Europe.The grants fall under the 'Excellent Science' pillar of the EU's R&I programme Horizon 2020 and allow researchers a chance to realise their most creative ideas that can have a major impact on science, society and the economy.Congratulati…

17 Apr 2018

News from Astex: A drug called Kisqali for breast cancer

Astex is now celebrating its first cancer drug.The first experiments of Astex, a start-up company founded by Tom Blundell, Chris Abell and Harren Jhoti, were carried out in the Department of Biochemistry in 1999 under a University agreement. After eighteen years, Astex is now celebrating its first cancer drug which has received US marketing approva…