Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology

News 2009

Centre news from 2009.

Discovery opens door to drugs derived from protein

Drugs which are derived from protein such as insulin and antibody therapies could be produced more efficiently following a fresh discovery about DNA, research suggests.

Poonam Malik receives grant to study Nuclear cytoplasmic transport in mammalian cells

Poonam Malik has recently received a grant from the Royal Society to study how the nucleo-cytoplasmic import pathway is regulated and managed in eukaryotic cells using herpesviruses as model organism.

Honorary degree for Professor Bill Earnshaw

Professor Bill Earnshaw was conferred an honorary medical degree, Dr honoris causa, by the Charles University in Prague this past Monday.

Adele Marston accepted as a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme

Adele Marston recognised as one of Europe's most promising young life scientists.