The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) announced today that John Innes Centre’s Professor Sarah O’Connor is one of 65 outstanding life scientists to have been elected to its membership, joining a group of over 1,700 of the best researchers in Europe and around the world. The 2017 electees include 56 EMBO Members residing in 19 Member...

An international scientific alliance to fast track-crop improvement in sub-Saharan Africa is launched

Antibiotics, the wonder drugs discovered by accident that have saved 200 million lives and counting, have been voted Britain’s greatest invention

John Innes Centre scientists are among an international team who have discovered a new class of compounds that target bacteria in a unique way

The John Innes Centre has joined more than 35 universities and research institutions from across the UK, in backing a pledge to support their technicians by becoming founding signatories of the Technician Commitment.

John Innes Centre scientist Dr Cristobal Uauy has received national recognition for his pioneering work in global wheat breeding programmes

Streptomyces bacteria are today recognised as globally important industrial microbes, producers of most of the world’s antibiotics

Professor Graham Moore and the University of Bristol’s Professor Keith Edwards have been jointly awarded the 2018 Rank Prize in Nutrition (Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry) for their exceptional contribution to wheat research.

Jemima Brinton, a PhD student in her final year at the John Innes Centre, has been awarded the PhD Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (MECEA) at the 2017 annual MonoGram meeting in Bristol