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Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan
Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Venki runs the Ramakrishnan Lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. From 2015 to 2020, he served as president of the Royal Society, one of the world's oldest scientific organizations. He is the author of the frank scientific memoir Gene Machine.


How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

Venki Ramakrishnan on the Interconnectedness of Humanity’s Constantly Moving Parts
March 19, 2024  By Venki Ramakrishnan
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