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Ralitsa Madsen Portrait

We are delighted to announce that Dr Ralitsa Madsen has opened an Independent Investigator laboratory within the MRC PPU.

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Ex-MRC PPU Postdocs Ana Belén Pérez Oliva (Postdoc in the Alessi lab 2011-2015), Christophe Lachaud (Postdoc in Rouse lab 2011-2016) and Jenny van Asbeck-van der Wijst (Postdoc in the Alessi lab 2011-2013) have been awarded a €2.7 million EU collaborative grant to develop a new RNA-based therapy for patients suffering from congenital anemia.

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Sir Philip Cohen received a Lifetime Achievement Award at Scotland’s Life Sciences annual Dinner and Awards Ceremony on the evening of March 16th 2023.

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Thomas Williams, a PDRA in the Rousseau group of the MRC PPU has been awarded the Brian Cox for excellence in public engagement engaged researcher award. This award is awarded to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution in communicating science performed within the University of Dundee School of Life Sciences.

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Thomas Williams from the Rousseau group of the MRC PPU have been awarded the University of Dundee Molecular and Cellular Biology prize for unravelling a mechanism underpinning increased translation of proteasome assembly chaperones followed stress.

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Ana Cuenda, who carried out postdoctoral research in the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee from 1994 to 1999 has had a street in Spain named after her (named Calle Ana Cuenda).

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Phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification bestowed on proteins, by which phosphate is added or removed from protein substrates. Reversible phosphorylation is capable of regulating proteins in virtually every conceivable way.

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Researchers have uncovered multiple phosphorylation sites in the protein Shp1/p47 that are altered in response to cell stress. This finding could be important for understanding the regulation of cellular quality control pathways linked to diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration.

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Dario Alessi Portrait

Dario Alessi has been named as the winner of the 2023 Jeantet-Collen Prize for Translational Medicine. The award is given by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation.

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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Mark Peggie, Head of the MRC PPU’s cloning team for many years, who died suddenly on January 17th 2023 at the age of 54.

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