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10 Jul 2020

Part II examination prizes 2020

Congratulations to our Part II undergraduate examination prize-winners!We are very pleased to announce that the Part II Biochemistry prizes for 2020 have been awarded to the following students:Part II Richard Perham 1st Prize, awarded to the student(s) ranked highest in the class:Kayden XiePart II Richard Perham 2nd Prize, awarded to the student(s)…

6 Jul 2020

Congratulations to Department members on their recent appointments and awards!

Congratulations to Kathryn Lilley, Martin Welch and Midori Harris on their recent accomplishments.Kathryn LilleyProfessor Kathryn Lilley has been elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in recognition of her high-quality life science research.Speaking about her election, Kathryn said: "I feel extremely honoured to …

15 Jun 2020

Part III examination prizes 2020

Congratulations to our Part III undergraduate examination prize-winners!We are very pleased to announce that the Part III Biochemistry prizes for 2020 have been awarded jointly to the following students:Part III Richard Perham Prize, awarded to the student(s) ranked highest in the class:Anna ChristiansenCharlene TangPart III Alkis Seraphim Memorial…

13 Jun 2020

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

An update from the Head of Department, Professor Gerard Evan, regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.The best way to predict your future is to create it.Abraham LincolnWelcome to a cloudy but wonderfully green June. A lot is going to happen over the next few weeks: we will partially (and progressively) re-open our Departmental buildings, we …

10 Jun 2020

Qkine secures £1.5M series A funding from leading life science investors

Qkine has successfully closed a £1.5M series A investment round to accelerate the global scale-up of its commercial operations.The funding round attracted support from a wealth of leading life science funds and angel investors, including Parkwalk, a London-based firm that backs world-changing technologies emerging from the UK's leading universities…

15 May 2020

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

An update from the Head of Department, Professor Gerard Evan, regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: The light at the end of the tunnel.I hope you are all faring well – or at the very least, faring as well as can be expected. We've now been in lockdown since the 23rd of March, so are well into week 8. Things have been relatively quiet over …

29 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

An update from the Head of Department, Professor Gerard Evan, regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Another week staring at the walls marks another week of successful SARS-CoV-2 containment. More and more time now seems to be spent staring alternately into a webcam or at a tiled tessellation of faces waiting expectantly to hear something wh…

22 Apr 2020

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

An update from the Head of Department, Professor Gerard Evan, regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.COVID-19 research in the Department of BiochemistryWe are all doing our bit to fight the COVID-19 scourge. For most of us this simply means staying at home and keeping safe and healthy by limiting interactions with others, social distancing a…

16 Apr 2020

Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease

The Evan Group and their collaborators have published a new paper in Nature Communications demonstrating that making the Myc gene overactive and functional in the hearts of mice can trigger heart cell regeneration.Since adult hearts cannot usually repair themselves once damaged, harnessing the power of this gene represents major progress towards th…

7 Apr 2020

Collaboratively accelerating model system development in marine microbial ecology

The Nisbet, Howe and Waller Groups are part of an international consortium that has published a new paper detailing the genetic transformation of many marine microbial species for the first time.The oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface and are home to an astonishing diversity of microbial life. Over the past 16 years, the Gordon and Betty…

30 Mar 2020

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

Almost a week has gone by since the Department and University engaged a full lock down. It is difficult to believe that such an eventuality felt unthinkable only a week earlier. That seems a long time ago now.I hope you are all managing in your various homes and are following the government instructions not to venture out more than is absolutely ne…

16 Mar 2020

Eelco Tromer and colleagues win 2019 Cozzarelli Prize for the Biological Sciences

Congratulations to Eelco Tromer who is part of a research team that has been awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize for the Biological Sciences.The Cozzarelli Prize is awarded annually by the American National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to six research teams whose articles in the journal PNAS have made outstanding contributions to their fields. Each team…

11 Mar 2020

Advancing the frontier of aquatic symbiosis research

Ross Waller is one of fifteen international scientists to receive an investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded grants to support the work of fifteen scientists, including Dr Ross Waller from our Department, as part of their Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative investigator pro…

6 Mar 2020

Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease 2020

CANCELLED: Focused Meeting, 6-9 July 2020, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool.As a precautionary measure against coronavirus, please note that the upcoming "Small G proteins in cellular signalling and disease" conference has been cancelled.We apologise to any delegates that were hoping to attend.Small G proteins of the Ras superfamily regulat…

24 Feb 2020

Biochemistry Science Day 2020

POSTPONED: The Rainbow Revolution: Photosynthesis and the Power of Pigments.We have been advised that hands-on activities at the Cambridge Science Festival should be cancelled in line with the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. As such, we are sadly postponing our Saturday 14th March event, and will run this instead later in the year. We apo…