Trinity Researcher: Nobel prize for chemistry.

A senior research fellow of Trinity College has been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry.


A senior research fellow of Trinity College has been awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry.

Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishanan’s work on ribosomes has enabled breakthroughs in the vital field of antibiotics. A statement on the Nobel Prize website praises the fact that his work will “save lives and decreasing humanity’s suffering”.

Dr Ramakrishnan has been working at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Dr Ramakrishnan 57 is a US citizen and was born in Tamil Nadu, India in 1952. He shares the prize with two other scientists; Thomas Steitz from Yale University and Yonath from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

He currently works as a senior scientist and is a group leader at the structural studies division of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.