The Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine celebrated Darwin Day on November 24th 2009 in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species (which was published on 24th November 1859) and 200 years since Darwin's birth.
External lectures were given by Dr Gordon Chancellor from the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex; Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London; and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, Royal Society Wolfson Professor at Leicester University.
Photographs of the event will be available here soon.
The 4th UK Mesenchymal Stem Cell Meeting will take place on the 14th April 2010 - more.
The British Association of Cancer Research (BACR) Administrtive Secretariat is to be located in the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine from 2010 - more.
Professor Alex Markham, Head of the Section of Translational Medicine, has received an honorary degree from the University of York for his significant contribution to medical sciences.
We are pleased to announce that Craig Jordan, Visiting Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Institute, has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (May 2009). Craig's seminal contributions to the development of tamoxifen as an anti-cancer agent have been cited as recognition for his election to the Academy Fellowship. We are also very pleased to say that Craig was also elected to the National Academy of Medical Sciences (USA), completing an unprecedented week of achievement.
David Westhead, Professor of Bioinformatics in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, will be joining LIMM as a Visiting Professor of Bioinformatics to consolidate and expand on the current collaborations with the genomics interests in the Institute. Initially Professor Westhead will be spending one day a week in the Wellcome Trust Brenner Building and we hope in the future to extend the collaborative activity.
Professor Terry Rabbitts will be joining the Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 2009 (see http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p66.html or for more information on the AMS see http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk).
Professor Sir Alex Markham, Head of the Section of Translational Medicine in LIMM, received the award of Doctor of the University of Stirling earlier this month, in recognition of his contribution to the prevention of cancer. The award was conferred at the University's graduation ceremony which was held in St Andrew's Cathedral in Inverness on 7th November.
Paul Ko Ferrigno's work on "Electrical Protein Detection in Cell Lystates" was a winner in the Technology category of the 4th annual Nano 50 awards. These recognise the top 50 technologies, products and innovators that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact - the state of the art in nanotechnology. The work was a collaboration between Paul Ko Ferrigno in the Section of Experimental Therapeutics in LIMM with physicists and engineers including Professor Giles Davies, Dr Christoph Walti, Dr Dave Evans and Dr Steve Johnson.