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Our members address major questions associated with biological mechanisms in areas as diverse as membrane proteins; protein folding and assembly; viruses; and motor proteins. The Astbury Centre hosts 4-year PhD programmes funded by the Wellcome Trust and BBSRC that equip students with the wide range of expertise that may be used to address fundamental biological questions.

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New insights into β2-microglobulin amyloid aggregation

The aggregation of β2-microglobulin (β2m) into amyloid fibrils is associated with human disease, but subtly different variants of β2m are associated with diseases with distinct pathologies. Astbury researchers at the University of Leeds have used cryoEM to determine the structures of fibrils formed from three different variants under identical conditions in vitro. The research, from...

Megan Wright promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to Megan who has recently been promoted to Associate Professor following the completion of her University Academic Fellowship.

Molecules could target cardio-metabolic diseases

A spin out company called CalTIC has been launched by the University of Leeds and its research partners in Germany - the Lead Discovery Centre, a specialist drug discovery laboratory in Dortmund; the Max Planck Society; and Heidelberg University - to commercially exploit the research. Research over the past two decades has culminated in a...

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