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Welcome to Life Sciences

Embracing the full breadth of modern life sciences activity, the department comprises one of the largest groups in Europe and is composed of three academic divisions: Molecular Biosciences; Cell & Molecular Biology; and Biology.

Professor Ian Owens, HoD

The Department teaches three major degrees in Biology, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and a wide range of Masters-level courses.

Congratulations

To Professor So Iwata who has been awarded The Gregori Aminoff prize in crystallography 2010 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (see http://www.kva.se/en/), for his seminal crystallographic studies of membrane proteins.

To Professor Martin Buck who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his pioneering contributions to our understanding of molecular mechanisms of transcription initiation in bacteria (May 09).

To Professor Anne Dell who has been awarded a CBE (2009)

Diamond Podcast featuring Professor Stephen Curry (2009)

Coming Soon:  One Day Symposium on Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Biomolecules (29 April 2010)