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unusual facts about MRC


Philip Ingham

After a brief spell as a Research Scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he re-joined the ICRF as a staff scientist, remaining there for ten years before moving to the University of Sheffield, where he established the MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics.


Arthur M. Lesk

He was a group leader in the biocomputing program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, from 1987 to 1990; a visiting scientist at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, between 1977 and 1990; and a professor of chemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey from 1971 to 1987.

Christos Pantelis

He is highly experienced in the application of both structural and functional brain imaging to psychiatric disorders and has been awarded a number of NH & MRC grants, as well as a major imaging grant from the Ian Potter Foundation.

Congolese Revolutionary Movement

Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, the interim president of the MRC and a previous member of the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), agreed to join the Congolese army as a General, on July 27, 2006.

Dario Alessi

Dario Alessi FRSE FRS (born in France, 1967) is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) and Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee.

David A. Booth

In 1966-72, he was Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, on his own funds from SERC, MRC and MHRF.

David Barford

He studied at the University of Dundee Medical Research Council (MRC), with Philip Cohen and Tricia Cohen.

Greg Winter

He was also Deputy Director of the MRC’s Centre for Protein Engineering until its absorption into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Janet Treasure

Janet became a Medical Research Council (MRC) training fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, in 1984.

Joan A. Steitz

Steitz did her postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge (UK), where she interacted with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Mark Bretscher.

John Waterlow

After qualifying as a doctor, he was attached to the Medical Research Council's (MRC) military personnel research programme, working under BS Platt, where he spent a year studying heat stroke and heat exhaustion in Basra.

Mékinac Lake

The designation "Mekinac" was transmitted to several other water body names in the region (see section Mékinac desambiguation article), particularly the river, township, Regional County Municipality (MRC), two municipalities, two Catholic parishes...

Memory Reference Code

: "The MRC usually only provides support for industry-standard memory configurations. For instance, under a 1,066MHz FSB, the only choices regarding memory speed in the MRC are DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. We have to provide additional choices. For people who want higher memory frequency, we used the setting of 800MHz FSB:DDR2-800 in MRC, but overclocked it to work with a 1,066MHz FSB, so we could implement support for DDR2-1066."

MRC Cancer Unit

The MRC Cancer Unit was established in 2001 (as the MRC Cancer Cell Unit) by Professor Ron Laskey CBE, who was also appointed as the Unit's first Director.

Oskar Fischer

Michel Goedert of the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge University uncovered Fischer's significance after his study in the archives of Charles University in Prague in 2008.

Project design flood

After the 1973 Mississippi River floods, the MRC reviewed the project design flood and found that it was still reliable based on current standards.

Scotia, California

On July 8, 2008, the court issued its judgment and order confirming the Plan of Reorganization submitted by secured creditor Marathon Structured Finance Fund (Marathon), joined by Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC).

Sean Eddy

From 1992 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge UK working with John Sulston and Richard Durbin.

Sidney Altman

Later, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Altman started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme.

Thalia C. Eley

Following this she was funded by two Medical Research Council (MRC, UK) fellowships; the first as Research Training Fellow with status of Lecturer (1999-2002) and the second as Research Fellow with status of Senior Lecturer (2002-08).

West End, Dundee

The university’s College of Life Sciences located on Hawkhill incorporates the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Sir James W. Black Centre, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre laboratories.


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