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Structural biology at EMBL: driving technology development
Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field, creating ingenious inventions with worldwide impact. First member of the MD3 diffractometer family installed at EMBL Hamburg. Credits: Kinga Lubowiecka/EMBL
Scientific breakthroughs are often only made possible by innovative technological developments. This is certainly true in structural biology, where researchers seek to gain insight into biological processes by determining the structure of macromolecules at the atomic level, for instance by X-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy. Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field, creating ingenious inventions with worldwide impact.