Royal Society chooses structural biologist Nobel laureate as new president
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028722
Nature : Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been selected to become the UK Royal Society’s new president later this year. He will replace Paul Nurse, a geneticist who has served as president since December 2010. Ramakrishnan is currently the deputy director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. After earning a PhD in physics, he moved into biology and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomes, the molecules that construct proteins from DNA. As president of the Royal Society, Ramakrishnan will be serving as the public head of an organization that promotes scientific investment and directly funds research across all fields of study in the UK.
