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unusual facts about MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology



John Abelson

He then did a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, Cambridge, England, where he worked with Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick studying DNA transcription.

Judith Kimble

Kimble then moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where she spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow working with Sir John Sulston on the control of organogenesis.

Phage display

The invention of antibody phage display by laboratories at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology led by Greg Winter and John McCafferty, The Scripps Research Institute led by Richard Lerner and Carlos F. Barbas and the German Cancer Research Centre by Frank Breitling and Stefan Dübel revolutionised antibody drug discovery.

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.


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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.

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.

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.