Congratulations! IMPRiND consortium member Michel Goedert @MichelGoed is awarded the 2019 Royal Medal for Biological Sciences.
Michel has been honoured for his work on neurodegenerative diseases, especially for identifying and characterising key molecules that form the inclusions of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases which he also carries out in the frame of the IMPRiND project.
More information can be found on the website of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
On May 30 a paper by Luc Bousset and Ronald Melki on two new polymorphic structures of alpha-synuclein solved by cryo-electron microscopy was published in bioRxiv. Access to the article.
This project receives funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (www.imi.europa.eu) under grant agreement No 116060. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA.
This work is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education‚ Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 17.00038.
The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of these funding bodies.