Laboratory of Molecular Biology

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (or LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, which was at the forefront of the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s, since then it remains a major medical research laboratory with a much broader focus. A new £200m replacement building has been constructed close by to the original building on the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus site. It is due to open in 2013. The road outside the new building is called Francis Crick Avenue after the 1962 joint Nobel Prize winner, who co-discovered the helical structure of DNA in 1953.

Scientific biographies of three former LMB staff are currently being written: John Kendrew by Paul Wassarman, Aaron Klug by Kenneth Holmes, and Frederick Sanger by George Brownlee. Other ex-LMB staff recently the subject of scientific biographies include: Sydney Brenner by Errol Friedberg, Francis Crick by Robert Olby, and Max Perutz by Georgina Ferry. Francis Crick had a bronze bust modelled by American sculptor John Sherrill Houser, which may be on display for the formal opening of the new LMB building in 2013.