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Max Perutz: science communicator
Max Perutz, the Austrian-born molecular biologist who founded the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1962, won the Nobel Prize for his work deciphering the structure of the blood protein...
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Bedsheets, boats and biology: James Lovelock and the MRC
Think James Lovelock, and most people think about Gaia theory, his idea that the Earth is a self-regulating system that keeps the conditions for life in a delicate equilibrium. But for 20 years...
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Dr Richard Coward is an MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and Head of Research for the School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Here he tell us about his working life from spending time with...
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Working life: Carol Robinson
Professor Dame Carol Robinson is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Here she tells us about her working life, from becoming fascinated with mass spectrometry to the inspirational role...
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Practical science: the lab technician
Pat Edwards is a Research Support Technician in the Structural Studies Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. She spoke to The Long+Short about her job. Pat Edwards...
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Working life: Eva Hoffmann
Eva Hoffmann MRC Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellow Dr Eva Hoffmann is trying to find why a woman’s risk of having a baby with a chromosomal disorder – such as Down syndrome – increases with age. Here...
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Remembering Mary Lyon and her impact on mouse genetics
Dr Mary Lyon, an important figure in the field of mouse genetics, died in December. Here Katherine Nightingale looks back on her career, from a ‘titular’ degree to her impact on generations of...
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A look back at Peter Medawar
Peter Medawar with colleagues at the NIMR Peter Medawar, Nobel Laureate and Director of the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in the 1960s, was born 100 years ago on 28 February. Here...
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Cardiologist Professor Stefan Neubauer has invented a test for chronic liver disease which could cut diagnosis time from weeks to a single day. Here he tells us about his working life and what it’s...
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Working life: Olubukola ‘Bukky’ Idoko
Dr Olubukola Idoko is a clinical trial coordinator and paediatrician at MRC Unit, The Gambia. Here she tells us about a recent trial of a multi-dose pneumococcal disease vaccine, and why even the crazy...
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Working life: Dr Donald J. Davidson
Dr Donald J. Davidson is an inflammation biologist and MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellow at the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research. Here he tells us about his working life, and why he considers...
View ArticleWorking Life: Professor Sheila M. Bird
Programme Leader in Biostatistics Research at the MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU), Professor Sheila Bird OBE FRSE, has spent the past 35 years applying her statistical skills to a range of areas that have...
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Working life: Sir Brian Greenwood
Sir Brian Greenwood of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has worked in clinical tropical medicine for 50 years, reinventing field research and making discoveries that have led to sharp...
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Working life: Brain bank manager Dr Laura Palmer
Dr Laura Palmer is the manager of the South West Dementia Brain Bank at the University of Bristol, which is part of the MRC-led UK Brain Banks Network. Here she tells us about her working life, the...
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Working Life: Majidah Hamid-Adiamoh
Majidah Hamid-Adiamoh joined MRC Unit, The Gambia as a scientific officer in 2004 and has been working with the malaria research programme ever since. She talks about winning the L’Oréal-UNESCO ‘For...
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Working Life: Dr Shamith Samarajiwa
Dr Shamith Samarajiwa’s computational biology group is the newest team at the MRC Cancer Unit. His group develops multi-disciplinary data science, data engineering and computational biology solutions...
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Working life: Trials Manager Jen Lawson
Jennifer Lawson is the Trials Manager for the recently launched Deep and Frequent Phenotyping study looking to do the most in-depth research ever conducted to find out how Alzheimer’s disease develops....
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Working life: International Director at PraxisUnico Dr Nessa Carey
On International Women’s Day we explore the working life of Dr Nessa Carey, International Director at PraxisUnico, Visiting Professor at Imperial College and an author. She shares her multi-career...
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Working life: Surgeon and researcher Damian Mole
Damian Mole combines surgery with research. He has just been awarded a prestigious MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship to find out why people who’ve had acute pancreatitis have a shortened lifespan, even...
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Working life: Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry Dr Emmert Roberts
Career in brief: Medical school at the University of Oxford Academic foundation doctor for two years at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Clinical Research Fellow at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute,...
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