Congratulations to Ana Belen Perez Oliva on being awarded Spain's most prestigious JIN (Jovenes INvestigadores/Young Researchers) fellowship to establish an independent research programme at the University of Murcia.


Ana undertook postdoctoral research in the MRC PPU between 2011-2015 in Dario Alessi's lab, where she worked on deciphering the role of the USP45 deubiquitylase.

Atul Kumar has recently been awarded Har-Gobind Khorana Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Indian Government.

The ability to selectively and rapidly degrade a protein of interest (POI) inside cells is desirable for studying its function and in therapeutics. Previously, the Sapkota Lab had developed the Affinity-directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) system for constitutive degradation of POIs (Fulcher et al., 2016 & 2017).

The Sapkota lab developed the Affinity-directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) system for targeted degradation of endogenous proteins inside cells. In principle, by deploying binders of specific proteins attached to destruction signals as “protein missiles”, any intracellular protein can be destroyed rapidly.

Elena Purlyte, a PhD student in Professor Dario Alessi’s lab in the MRC PPU, has been issued with a commendation by the University Principal for her contributions to academic excellence, student representation and leadership in the School of Life Sciences.

Alban Ordureau, a PhD student and then postdoc in Philip Cohen’s lab from 2008-2013 has been appointed Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Cell Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, one of the world’s leading cancer researc

Researchers within the Reagents and Services (R&S) division of the MRC PPU and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) have worked extremely hard since January in order to produce expression plasmids, proteins and sheep affinity purified polyclonal antibodies to all 28 proteins encoded for by SARS-CoV-2.

Launching today, Tuesday 12th May, the COVID-19 Protein Portal allows UK scientists to access protein reagents for critical research relating to SARS-CoV-2. Protein reagents are provided free of charge by a consortium of leading protein production laboratories, in an Open Science initiative led by Wellcome and UKRI.

Despite the coronavirus lockdown, researchers from MRC PPU are continuing to attend online meetings, seminars and conferences to share ideas with researchers around the world.

University of Dundee researchers are studying a protein that aids the spread of COVID-19 in the hope of finding ways of blocking its function.