Medicine Fellow honoured for pioneering local protein synthesis work

  • 21 October 2022
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Gonville & Caius College Fellow Professor Christine Holt FMedSci, FRS has been awarded the 52nd Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.

The Professor Emerita of Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge received the award jointly with Erin Schuman, Professor of Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.

The award recognises their pioneering work to shed light on the role of local protein synthesis in neuronal development and function. Their research has provided important insights about the way nerve cells are guided over long distances, from the eye to the brain, and how specific regions of nerve cells may change during learning and memory. 

Schuman and Holt have developed imaginative cellular and molecular approaches to study how the translation of messenger RNA into protein can be localised to specific regions of a nerve cell.

Read more about the prize and Christine’s work on the University website and the Rosenstiel Award website and her department (PDN) website

The Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research was established in 1971 at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, United States. The Rosenstiel Award has had a distinguished record of identifying and honouring pioneering scientists who subsequently are honoured with the Lasker and Nobel Prizes. Thirty-eight of 93 Rosenstiel Award winners have later won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology or in Chemistry.

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