- Madan Babu, from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been announced as the recipient of the Protein Society’s 2014 Protein Science Young Investigator Award.
- Madan has been a group leader at the LMB since 2006.
- His lab is interested in in understanding how regulation is achieved in cellular systems, with the aim of gaining a genome-level understanding of why certain mutations cause disease.
- Madan’s group is currently investigating properties of biological networks and intrinsically disordered proteins to understand how they achieve regulation and influence genome evolution.
- His group employs an interdisciplinary approach, combining computational and experimental methods to study regulatory processes at multiple scales of complexity (ranging from the molecular to the genome level) across a wide range of model organisms.
- The Protein Society award recognises Madan’s contributions to the understanding of the principles of regulation in biological systems, especially in the fields of intrinsically disordered proteins and gene regulation.
- As part of the award, Madan has been invited to present a talk at the Protein Society Annual Symposium, in San Diego, in July 2014.
About the Award:
- The Protein Science Young Investigator Award recognises important contributions to the study of proteins, by a scientist in the early stages of an independent career.
- It is named after The Protein Society’s academic journal,Protein Science. Madan is the first LMB scientist to be honoured with this prestigious award.
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