Abigail Brewer, a recently graduated PhD student, and Jin-Feng Zhao, a postdoctoral researcher, from Prof. Gopal Sapkota’s lab at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit have been awarded the 2024 Howard Elder prize for their exceptional cancer discoveries on targeted dephosphorylation.

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The MRC PPU recently welcomed the Director, Dr Sally Burtles, and Chair, Sir John Iredale, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine to the University of Dundee for Kirby’s Lister Prize award ceremony.

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In new work funded by Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) researchers in the laboratories of Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi at the MRC PPU in collaboration with Suzanne Pfeffer at Stanford University have identified a unifying mechanism in the brain that may explain how mutations in two distinct PD-linked genes lead to Parkinson’s disease (PD

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Congratulations to Prosenjit Pal, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the MRC PPU, on being awarded a Tenovus Small Project Grant of £20,000.

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Arpan Mehta and Philip Cohen have been awarded grants totalling over £1 million to develop aspects of their research programmes. …more

Dr Arpan Mehta, Independent Investigator at the MRC PPU, is the recipient of the 51st Sir John Halliday Croom medal and lectureship. This annual prize, for research within the last five years, is named after Sir John Halliday Croom (1909-86), a past President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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Scientists from the university of Dundee have developed novel approaches to peek inside cells and map exactly how one of the most common cancer genes perturbs biochemical signal transfer. This discovery and the associated technological innovations are now published in EMBO Molecular Systems Biology and underpin a prospective future research programme led by Dr Madsen within the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit. …more

Prof. Ian Ganley, Group Leader in the MRC PPU, is the recipient of the 2025 Hooke Medal from the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB). …more

We are delighted to announce that Daniel Saarela has been awarded a competitive two year postdoctoral fellowship by the Hamburg based NCL Foundation.

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Mitochondria are essential energy-generating powerhouses and maintaining their function at optimal levels is critical for cell survival. Accumulation of dysfunctional mitochondria has been linked to many diseases including cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

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