The first grant for the lab has landed! This Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award will last for 2 years, and help us establish collaborations with molecular immunologists and clinicians across Leeds. Hopefully this will provide a great launch pad for our future work. This award is jointly funded by Wellcome, BHF, Diabetes UK and DSIT - click to find out more about the scheme and this years awardees.
Helen is one of this years recipients of an Early Career Award from the Biochemical Society! Helen says "The previous awardees includes many exceptional scientists who I admire so I am really humbled to be listed among them. A big thank you to Takashi Ochi - my colleague and fellow cilia/centrosome enthusiast at Leeds - for nominating me. It was especially nice that Elton Zeqiraj, who I often have lunch with, was also recognised this year for Sustained Excellence" (read more here).
We are very happy to become Astbury Centre members and join a collaborative community of structural molecular biologists, chemists and computational biologists at Leeds. We share the goal of 'Understanding life in molecular detail' and are really looking forward to exploring different perspectives on this.
Just a few weeks after arriving in Leeds, Helen has set up the soon-to-be-populated lab databases and got started in the lab! We are lucky to be sharing lab space with Michelle Peckham's lab, and their support made the set-up very smooth.