MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
This centre closed in September 2010.
The MRC Centre for Protein Engineering (CPE) in Cambridge closed following the retirement of its director, Professor Sir Alan Fersht. CPE staff and infrastructure have been incorporated in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
The CPE, a pioneering MRC research unit that focused on the structure, stability and activity of proteins and the engineering of antibodies was established in 1990. It was one of the MRC’s first interdisciplinary research centres and also one of the first laboratories to bring together molecular biology, molecular genetics, biophysics and structural biology into one cohesive unit.
The unit’s infrastructure will become the LMB’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance centre and biophysics facilities. Professor Sir Alan Fersht will continue to lead his research on the p53 tumour suppressor gene for the next five years.
An account of the Centre can be found in the September/October 2010 issue of Network magazine.
