Laboratory of Molecular Biology

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Laboratory of Molecular Biology (sometimes abbreviated as LMB) in Cambridge, England is the molecular biology research facility of the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom. It was first established in 1947 as a "Unit for Research on the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems".

The laboratory today is comprised of 4 divisions: Structural Studies, Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Neurobiology. As of 2006, the centre was staffed with ~276 scientists (including 66 group leaders), and ~142 support staff.

Graduate students of the laboratory are registered at the University of Cambridge.

Many notable scientists, including 15 Nobel Prize winners (as of 2006), have worked there such as:

• Sydney Brenner - Nobel Laureate
• Mark Bretscher
• Francis Crick - Nobel Laureate
• Andrew Fire - Nobel Laureate
• John Gurdon
• Robert Horvitz - Nobel Laureate
• John Kendrew - Nobel Laureate
• Aaron Klug - Nobel Laureate
• Georges J. F. Köhler - Nobel Laureate
• Roger D. Kornberg - Nobel Laureate
• César Milstein - Nobel Laureate
• Alan Munro
• Michael Neuberger
• Barbara Pearse
• Max Perutz - Nobel Laureate
• Fred Sanger - Nobel Laureate (twice)
• John Sulston - Nobel Laureate
• John Walker - Nobel Laureate
• James Watson - Nobel Laureate

[edit] External links

• Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
• The Nobel Laureates of the LMB