cdb-news
- Prof Claudio Stern awarded one of seven Advanced Grants from ERC
- Prof David Becker nominated for BBSRC Innovator of the Year Award
- Young Embryologist Network Meeting
- Prof Lewis Wolpert at the world's only Philosophy Festival
- CDB PhD Student wins two prestigious awards
- Prof Christopher Dean wins Excellence in Medical Education Award
- Prof Steve Wilson interviewed in 'Development'
- CDB Scientists discover sense of direction is innate
- CDB Scientists discover genes 'decide who wins body’s battle with cancer'
- Cells’ grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
- Prof Geoff Burnstock wins two prestigious awards
- The secret life of cells revealed
- Dr Greg Campbell wins UCL teaching award
- Dr Samuel Lee warns that women are risking their lives in pursuit of a child
- Head of CDB elected President of the International Society for Developmental Biology
- CDB scientist awarded prestigious Developmental Neurobiology prize
- CDB research highlighted in Emmy award-winning National Geographic film
- New funding for research into the genetic causes of Parkinson's, awarded to CDB
- Prof Steve Hunt prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for Neuroscience
- Prof Claudio Stern interviewed on the implications of US stem cell funding ban lift
- CDB students win UCL Graduate School Research Poster Competition
- Reptile fossil reignites debate over New Zealand’s submergence
- CDB scientists identify mechanism behind brain asymmetry
- CDB Students win Prizes in UCL Graduate School Competition
- Antisocial, invasive cells cause secondary tumours, say UCL scientists
- Jurassic turtles could swim
- Scientists gain insight into motor neurone disease
- Neuroscientist receives international prize for ‘pioneering work’
- Prof Claudio Stern elected FRS
- Spirals shape how we think
- Found: The frog from hell
- How insulin could reduce scarring
- CDB New Grants Success
- CDB Professor appointed Sainsbury Wellcome Centre: Interim Director
- Crucial sex hormones re-routed by missing molecule
- Prof Zeki on how a blind man 'sees' the world
- Love: it’s all the same to the brain
- Prof Semir Zeki on BBC World Service 'The Forum'
- 2011 Young Embryologist Network Meeting - all welcome
- Zebrafish lab wins two Wellcome Image Awards
- UCL voted best place for postdocs to work
- CDB wins 1st prize in UCL Graduate School Competition
- Prestigious Beddington Medal awarded to CDB graduate Carlos Carmona-Fontaine
- Fossil Specimen is the "oldest pregnant lizard we have seen" says Prof Susan Evans
- Used postal stamps collection for the Leprosy Mission
- Sainsbury Wellcome Centre granted planning permission
- Salinas lab findings on halting Alzheimer's disease in mice published in Journal of Neuroscience
- CDB grad student Andrew Beale wins 1st prize in UCL Poster Competition
- CDB welcomes new arrivals
- 4th Young Embryologist Meeting set for June 1st
- CDB PhD Students Wins First Prize in Biosciences Research Poster Competition
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CDB Seminars Wednesday 26 June, 12.30-4.40pm Gavin de Beer Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Anatomy Building Hosts: Steve Hunt and Michael Duchen
12.30pm Ricardo Laranjeiro: "A novel cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor (p20) controls circadian cell cycle timing" 1.00pm Mark Hajjawi: “Nucleotides as regulators of skeletal function” 1.30pm Keri Tochiki: “Are histone modifications setting up inflammatory pain states?” 2.00pm Gordon Walsh: "Model construction and
parameter determination in eukaryotic phosphoinositide metabolism" 2.40pm Mason Yeh: 3.10pm Beverley Bright: 3.40pm Eleanna Stamatakou: 4.10pm Hui Min Tan: __________________________
Thursday 27 June at 1pm __________________________ Following the Summer Break the Series returns in September.
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Prof David Becker nominated for BBSRC Innovator of the Year Award
2 March 2010
Professor David Becker is one of seven finalists nominated for
the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s 2010 Innovator of
the Year Award competition.
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Professor Becker and his colleague Professor Colin Green, from Auckland University in New Zealand, have developed a drug called Nexagon, a gel that can be applied to wounds to make them heal faster – or in the case of chronic wounds, stimulate them to heal. |
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