Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon is a programme leader in the Neurobiology Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). His group combines structural and cell biological approaches to investigate the molecular mechanisms of pathological protein assembly responsible for motor neuron diseases (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and frontotemporal dementias.

Benjamin obtained his BSc in human genetics from University College London, receiving the Lilian Clarke Prize. He completed his graduate research with Michel Goedert at the LMB, receiving a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge. He subsequently carried out a postdoc with Michel Goedert and Sjors Scheres at the LMB, where he helped to determine the electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of assembled tau in neurodegenerative diseases.

Benjamin established his independent research group at the LMB in 2019. He is a Young Investigator at the European Molecular Biology Organisation and a Co-investigator at the UK Dementia Research Institute. For his research, Benjamin has received the Alzheimer’s Research UK Rising Star Award, the Breuer Foundation Alzheimer’s Research Award, the SCOR Young European Researcher Prize and the Vallee Scholar Award

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