The Hike Itself:

• 24th November to 3rd December 2001.

• Participants: 68 from around Scotland plus 2 from Maggie's Centre.

• Distance covered: 140 km over 5 full days & 2 half days (around 20 km/day …more

Graham Rena, a postdoc in Philip Cohen's Group, won the prize for the best talk by a Younger Scientist at a meeting on Insulin held at Grassmere in the Lake District in North West England from May 22nd-24th 2002. The meeting, organised by the Rank Pr …more

Sir Philip Cohen ranked second of the 561,800 biologists and biochemists who published research papers over the ten years between 1992 and 2002. During this period, his research papers were cited 14,186 times, according to the Philadelphia based Inst …more

The MRC PPU have announced the renewal of their major collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.

Agreement has been reached with six of the world's major pharmaceutical companies (AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH,  …more

Sheelagh Frame, a Postdoctoral Researcher who worked in both the DSTT and the MRC Unit, left the Unit on the 29th March 2002 after spending 3 years here. Sheelagh has decided to re-enter the biotechnology sector (having worked in Onyx Pharmaceuticals …more

A brand-new laboratory complex has just been opened next to the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) on the first floor of the MSI-WTB Complex. The laboratory houses the research group of Professor Tricia Cohen and is shared with that of Dr …more

Calum Sutherland, a Wellcome Career Development Fellow who has been running his research group within the MRC Unit over the past 5 years, has been appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Dundee's Medical Scho …more

Philip Cohen gave the 7th annual Lehninger Lecture at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore on March 12th 2002. Held in honour of one of the world's most famous bioenergeticists, Albert Lehninger (1917-1986) is most widely known for writing the first r …more

John Rouse, who obtained his PhD with Philip Cohen in 1996, is rejoining the Unit in October 2002 as a Programme Leader. For the past six years John has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Steve Jackson at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridg …more

Dario Alessi, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the "missing link" in insulin signal transduction.
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