Lori Anne Passmore

Education

Lori Passmore graduated from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1999. She obtained a PhD in 2003 from University of London for research supervised by David Barford at the Institute of Cancer Research. She performed in vitro biochemical characterisation of the activity of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) and used cryo-EM to study the APC structure.

Career and research Passmore worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC-LMB. She worked with Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson, using cryo-EM to determine the structure of the eukaryotic ribosome bound to initiation factors. Passmore became a group leader at the MRC-LMB in 2009. Her group uses in vitro reconstitution, biochemical assays and cryo-EM to understand the function of multiprotein complexes that regulate gene expression at the level of mRNA.

Grants, awards and honours

2005 Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research 2010 European Research Council (ERC) starting grant 2016 Suffrage Science award 2017 ERC consolidator grant 2018 Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) 2023 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society