Our eighth MRC PPU alumni interview is with Alberto Vitari, ex-PhD student who was supervised by Dario Alessi. …more
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We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced scientist with considerable expertise in mass spectrometry to take charge of running major research collaborative projects with the group leaders in the MRC PPU. …more
Dr Sambit Nanda has been awarded a research grant of £15,000 from Tenovus, Scotland to continue his exciting new research on inflammasomes. …more
Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) have the potential to provide tissue replacement therapies for a number of debilitating diseases. This is because ESCs have the capacity to differentiate into any cell type in the adult body, a property known as pluripotency. …more
Mitochondria are the essential energy-generating powerhouses that provide our cells with the energy of life. However, their malfunction has a dark side. …more
PI3K and Akt inhibitors are being evaluated in clinical trials for the treatment of human tumours including breast cancer that display driver mutations that inappropriately elevate the PI3K/Akt signalling pathway. Despite initial promise, the majority of these tumours rapidly evolve to resist the PI3K/Akt pathway therapy. …more
Our seventh MRC PPU alumni interview is with Elton Zeqiraj, ex-PhD student who was jointly supervised by Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten. …more
Work in the Alessi lab in the MRC PPU has been geared towards understanding how mutations in LRRK2 impair its biological functions and cause Parkinson’s. …more
Esther Sammler, a former PhD student with Dario Alessi and consultant neurologist in Dundee has been awarded an Academic Health Sciences Partnership in Tayside (AHSP) Clinical Fellowship which is aimed at promoting translational research. …more
Yosua Adi Kristariyanto, a 4th year PhD student in Yogesh Kulathu’s lab, won the EMBO Journal Poster Award at the recent FASEB Conference on Ubiquitin and Cellular Regulation. The six-day conference held at Big Sky, Montana, USA was a platform for scientists across the world to meet and share recent findings in the ubiquitin field. …more