We are delighted to announce that Virginia has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, one of the UK’s flagship fellowship schemes for early career investiga

MRC-PPU Postdoctoral Researcher Francisco Bustos has been appointed Assistant Professor at Sanford Research, South Dakota USA

Edmond (Eddy) Fischer, who discovered the first enzyme regulated by reversible protein phosphorylation, died on August 27th 2021. He was 101. His fundamental discovery, which led to the realization that this process controls most aspects of cell life, earned Eddy together with his colleague, friend and collaborator Edwin Krebs, the 1992 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterised by the loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. The physiological and molecular mechanisms leading to this neuronal loss are currently unclear; however, mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction seem to play a central disease role.

In a new paper just published in The EMBO Journal, Yisui Xia, Ryo Fujisawa, Remi Sonneville & Tom Deegan from Karim Labib’s group in the MRC PPU have revealed the mechanism of replisome disassembly in animal cells, using the n

Postdoctoral researchers from MRC PPU (University of Dundee) are pleased to be involved in organizing the 6th Scottish Biomedical Postdoctoral Researcher Conference, along with postdoctoral societies at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer (University of Edinburgh) and CRUK Beatson Institute (University of Glasgow).

Mahima Swamy lab in the MRCPPU, have identified a new potential drug target for coeliac disease that could relieve inflammation and unlock alternative treatment options.

Seven new papers have been published today in The Biochemical Journal, representing a major collaboration between multiple groups at the Francis Crick Institute in London, University College London and The University of Dundee.

Held annually by many universities worldwide, including the University of Dundee, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes to non-specialist audiences.

Ayaz Najafov appointed Assistant Professor in UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas