News 2020
Centre news from 2020.
BSCB Raff Medal Awarded to WCB PhD graduate Flora Paldi
Recent PhD graduate Flora Paldi has been awarded the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) inaugural Raff Medal.
Caffeine shot delivers wakeup call on antifungal drug resistance
The management of fungal infections in plants and humans could be transformed by a breakthrough in understanding how fungi develop resistance to drugs.
EMBO membership awarded to Dónal O'Carroll
Professor Dónal O'Carroll has been awarded the lifetime honour of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) Membership.
Robin Allshire elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
This prestigious fellowship recognises the major contributions that Robin Allshire has made to our understanding of chromosome structure and function.
School facility to provide essential proteins for coronavirus research
Edinburgh Protein Production Facility (EPPF) have joined a national consortium to provide medically important proteins that will aid coronavirus research.
Adrian Bird shares world’s largest prize for pioneering brain research
Sir Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics based at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and member of the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, has been awarded the world’s most prestigious neuroscience prize for his work to understand a rare neurological disorder.
David Tollervey and Sara Macias to participate in EMBL Twinning Project
David Tollervey, from the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Sara Macias from the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research will take part in a twinning project with the Central European Institute of Technology and other partners, to share research expertise on RNA biology.