Researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Satpal Virdee have published the first example of genetically encodable aminooxy functionality, which can be installed site-selectively into recombinant proteins using genetic code expansion technology. …more
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Satpal Virdee has been awarded a BBSRC Responsive Mode award of £650,000 allowing his lab to further develop technology they pioneered that enables the activity-based profiling of E3 ligases. …more
Our sixth alumni interview is with Anna Zagorska, ex-MRC PPU PhD student in Dario Alessi's group. Click the MRC PPU Alumni Interview icon on the top of our website, or here to read the interview. …more
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) have conducted a major in-depth interview with Davie Douglas: honorary member of the MRC PPU who for nearly the last 20 years has been the main airport taxi driver for our research staff and their guests. …more
In ground-breaking new work published in Molecular Cell, Yogesh Kulathu and colleagues report the discovery of a completely new family of Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). …more
On May 20th, Philip Cohen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad di Autonoma di Madrid. After receiving the award, Philip then gave a 30 minute talk about his career to an audien …more
Christophe Lachaud has won a Principal Investigator position from the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the premier research funding agency in France. Each year, the CNRS elects a small number of rese …more
Our fifth alumni interview is with Kei Sakamoto, ex-MRC PPU postdoc (in Dario Alessi's group) and group leader, and now Head of Diabetes and Circadian Rhythms at Nestlé Institute of Heal …more
Miratul Muqit, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow in the MRC PPU, has been elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Founded in 1518, the Royal College of Physicians is England's oldest medical institution and …more