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Jun
03
2019

David Sabatini MD PhD delivers the 7th Annual Sir John Walker Lecture

By Penny Peck

The 7th Annual Sir John Walker Lecture, ‘Regulation of Growth and Metabolism’, was delivered on Thursday, 30 May 2019, by David Sabatini, MD, PhD.

Professor Sabatini is a member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He studies the pathways that regulate growth and metabolism and how they are deregulated in diseases like cancer and diabetes.

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May
13
2019

University of Helsinki - Silver Medal for John Walker

By Penny Peck

On 7 May 2019, Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Walker FRS, FMedSci was presented with the University of Helsinki Silver Medal, the University's highest award, in recognition of his contributions to bioenergetics and structural biology and for advising the University's Institute of Biotechnology, as a member of its Advisory Board for nearly twenty years from 1999 to 2018.

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Apr
10
2019

The Keith Peters Building

By Penny Peck

On Thursday, 4 April, Professor Sir Keith Peters unveiled a plaque in reception to mark the formal re-naming of the Wellcome Trust/MRC Building as The Keith Peters Building. We share this building with the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR). Further information about the renaming event is available via CIMR's website.

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Feb
26
2019

Rare disease day: 28 February

By Penny Peck

28 February is the twelfth international Rare Disease Day, coordinated by EURORDIS.

Around this date, awareness-raising activities are taking place all over the world.

The MBU's contribution was a mitochondrial face-painting event - great fun was had by all!

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