Group Leaders
The LMB is an outstanding place to pursue a research career.
Group Leaders are given complete scientific freedom and ample institute resources for research, without teaching or grant-raising obligations.
The LMB has around 55 research groups within its four scientific Divisions. The LMB culture of collaboration and shared state-of-the‑art scientific facilities, staffed by experts, enables creative and world-leading research to thrive.
The LMB engages both in curiosity-driven discovery and mission science. LMB groups have a long tradition of developing foundational technologies and making fundamental, world-changing discoveries about how life works.
Group Leaders at the LMB
Programme Leader Track (tenure-track) Group Leaders are those in their first group leader role. Tenure-track positions last six years, with extensions for parental leave or extenuating circumstances, after which a tenure decision is made.
Programme Leaders (tenured) are internationally recognised leaders in their field and appointed on an open-ended basis. They are subject to review every seven years by an external, expert committee.
Group Leaders are mentored, especially early in their career, and offered many other opportunities for support, training and enrichment throughout their time at the LMB.
“What I love about the LMB is the small research groups which are very collaborative, focussing on big ideas, long-term projects and high-risk projects. My dream place to work.”
Marta Zlatic
GROUP LEADER, NEUROBIOLOGY DIVISION
“The LMB is an inspiring environment. There are so many like-minded and very motivated people coming from all over the world to seek answers to big questions in biology, something that’s really rare.”
Kelly Nguyen
GROUP LEADER, STRUCTURAL STUDIES DIVISION
“The connections you make at the LMB and within the Cambridge ecosystem enable translation of your pioneering science into useful technologies and therapeutics.”
Leo James
GROUP LEADER, PNAC DIVISION AND CO-FOUNDER OF TRIMTECH THERAPEUTICS
“I still enjoy being at the bench, particularly as it allows me to train the people in my lab. Just being able to do what I care about and knowing that the LMB trusts me to think about these questions is great.”
Madeline Lancaster
GROUP LEADER AND JOINT HEAD OF CELL BIOLOGY DIVISION
“You have tremendous freedom here to be able to work on what you want to, and that’s really empowering and really fun: it’s like being in a playground every day, coming to work.”