On 18 July, the Royal Society (UK) announced the award of its 2019 Royal Medal for Biological Sciences to Prof Michel Goedert, a neurobiology group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Prof Goedert, originally from Luxembourg, has made important discoveries on the structure and function of filament-shaped proteins that accumulate in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and AD. Two such proteins, Tau and alpha-synuclein, are now known to play central roles in the development of AD, thanks in part to Prof Goedert’s ground-breaking work. With this award, Prof. Goedert joins an illustrious group of Royal Medal recipients, which includes Michael Faraday, Dorothy Hodgkin and Francis Crick alongside other scientific luminaries.
https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/michel-goedert-awarded-the-2019-royal-medal-for-biological-sciences/
