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Babraham researchers receive European accolade

15 November 2011

Two researchers from the Babraham Institute have been elected as members of the Academia Europaea, an international association of scientists and scholars with elected members selected from the whole European community across all academic disciplines.

Professor Wolf Reik (pictured left) – Head of Babraham's Epigenetics Laboratory and Professor of Epigenetics at the University of Cambridge – and Dr Peter Fraser (pictured right), who heads the Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics at Babraham, join the elite membership of around 2,300 academics from across the natural sciences, humanities and letters.

Professor Michael Wakelam, Director of the Babraham Institute, which receives strategic funding from BBSRC, said, "We are delighted that the Academia Europaea has recognised Wolf and Peter's groundbreaking and far-reaching research, which is generating new knowledge of biological mechanisms underpinning ageing, development and the maintenance of health. Their studies, focused on understanding genome regulation and signalling within cells, are revealing how epigenetic signals can influence important physiological adaptations during the lifespan of an organism and an integrated understanding of the control of genome function in relation to health and ageing."



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