A highly ambitious project led by Miratul Muqit and scientists at the School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine at the University of Dundee has been selected for the highly prestigious 2025 SPARK NS Translational award, a global translational research programme, aimed at accelerating scientific discoveries in Parkinson’s disease to reach patients.

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The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to an Honorary Professorship. A world-renowned biochemist and leader in the field of intracellular signalling, Professor Scott brings with him an extraordinary record of scientific discovery, academic leadership, and global collaboration.

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We are thrilled to announce that the latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo is being installed at the MRC PPU, UoD SLS. This platform enables us to perform miniaturized end-to-end sample preparation workflows for single cell and spatial proteomic analysis combined with Ultra-sensitive tims-TOF SCP and Orbitrap Astral mass spectrometers.

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Abigail Brewer, a recently graduated PhD student, and Jin-Feng Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher, from Prof. Gopal Sapkota’s lab at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit have been awarded the 2024 Howard Elder prize for their exceptional cancer discoveries on targeted dephosphorylation.

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The MRC PPU recently welcomed the Director, Dr Sally Burtles, and Chair, Sir John Iredale, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine to the University of Dundee for Kirby’s Lister Prize award ceremony.

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In new work funded by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) researchers in the laboratories of Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi at the MRC PPU in collaboration with Suzanne Pfeffer at Stanford University have identified a unifying mechanism in the brain that may explain how mutations in two distinct PD-linked genes lead to Parkinson’s disease (PD

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Congratulations to Prosenjit Pal, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the MRC PPU, on being awarded a Tenovus Small Project Grant of £20,000.

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Arpan Mehta and Philip Cohen have been awarded grants totalling over £1 million to develop aspects of their research programmes. …more

Dr Arpan Mehta, Independent Investigator at the MRC PPU, is the recipient of the 51st Sir John Halliday Croom medal and lectureship. This annual prize, for research within the last five years, is named after Sir John Halliday Croom (1909-86), a past President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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