Tricia and Philip Cohen won the Badger's Trophy held at the Dukes Golf Course at St Andrews on August 22nd. The event was a Mixed Greensome. In this format the male and female members of the team both drive off at each hole, and then elect which ball …more

David Komander, an MRC Predoctoral Fellow, co-supervised by Dario Alessi and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, Daan van Aalten, was selected as one of the ten finalists in the Biochemical Journal Young Investigator Award Competition out of 157 applicants …more

Dario Alessi was presented with a cheque for £2012 for diabetes research on 3 August 2004 from Camperdown Lodge. The donation was the proceeds from their Gala Day held on 10 July. On receiving the cheque Dario said "I would like to thank all those at …more

Philip Cohen has agreed to become the patron of STEM, a local organisation which has the objective of enhancing the interest of Primary and Secondary School children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. STEM was recently launched at à…more

In June 2004, Mercedes Pozuelo Rubio, postdoctoral researcher with Carol MacKintosh, was awarded a prestigious five year ‘Ramon y Cajal' Fellowship from the Spanish government. Mercedes plans to use her award to establish a research programme i …more

On May 22nd 2004, Philip Cohen received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Linkoping, Sweden, for his contributions to the research in the Life Sciences and the development of Biotechnology in Dundee. Commenting on the a …more

On 20 February 2004, Philip Cohen opened the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Cellular Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UCL. Philip and Tricia are former students of the Department.

The ceremony was attend …more

From 26th - 30th January 2004, the Unit's Director, Philip Cohen, was a guest of The British Council in West and South India, participating in their "Ambassador's Programme". Over the first five days he and Tricia visited The National Chemical Labora …more

The Moffat Charitable Trust recently donated £75,000 to the Unit, to fund a PhD student in Dario Alessi's laboratory, researching an area of diabetes. Abdallah Al-Hakim has been appointed to the studentship. Born in Egypt, Abdallah's family moved to  …more

The image on the 2003 MRC Christmas/New Year card is a painting inspired by the research of our Unit. The artist is Dr Lizzie Burns, who is based in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The picture is entitled "Insulin binding  …more