We are delighted to announce that Professor Kei Sakamoto, a former Principal Investigator at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU), has been elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in 2026.

The MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Monika Zwirek as its new General Manager, succeeding Paul Davies.

Congratulations to Dr Aniketh Bishnu, a postdoctoral researcher in the Ganley Lab, who was awarded the Silver Prize for his poster presentation at the Houses of Parliament in London.

Researchers at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and the Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow have uncovered a previously unknown antiviral mechanism that functions like a molecular "quarantine" for viruses.

Dr Esther Sammler, clinician scientist within the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit and consultant neurologist at NHS Tayside, has played a central role in establishing the University of Dundee as one of the first sites worldwide to activate and recruit into a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating a potential disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson’s disease.

Congratulations to MRC PPU Postdoctoral Scientist Prosenjit Pal for winning the Best ECR Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025, Lorne, Australia. Prosenjit's poster is entitled - Novel Motif in Several Proteins Interacting with a Lysosomal Membrane Integral Protein Implies a Link between Ubiquitylation, Autophagy, and Ciliogenesis

Dr. Ralitsa Madsen, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Principal Investigator in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU), has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal in Life Sciences for 2025. The medal recognises exceptional early-career contributions to advancing knowledge in the life sciences.