MRC-PPU PI Vicky Cowling has been awarded the inaugural Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal by the British Society for Cell Biology …more

Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) phosphorylate the 3'-position hydroxyl of the D-myo-inositol head group of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) to generate 3-phosphoinositides that play critical in orchestrating a wide range of biological responses includ …more

The potential to develop new drugs to target a class of enzymes which are implicated in major diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative conditions has been boosted with the development of a new drug discovery method in a research effort performed …more

Earlier this month the MRC-PPU football team participated for the first time in the College of Life Sciences football tournament, playing three matches:

Game 1 against the Division of Molecular Microbiology (MMB) - who just happen to be l …more

On the evening of August 16th Philip Cohen gave the closing lecture of the 8th International Workshop on Waldenstrom's Lymphoma in the Churchill rooms of the Houses of Parliament in  …more

The Biochemical Journal have announced that a paper published by Kris Clark in 2011, when he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philip Cohen's lab, is the most cited paper published in the Signal subsection of the journal over the two year period e …more

Dr. Howie Firth, Director of the Orkney International Science Festival (OISF) is in high spirits, planning for the upcoming Festival (September 4-10, 2014). He has a number of very diverse topics planned for talks and events, from physics and astron …more

It is with heavy hearts that we pass on the sad news that Dr Graeme Carnegie passed away peacefully on the 20th of July 2014, after a brave and prolonged battle with leukaemia. Graeme is remembered with huge affection and pride in Dundee, where he wa …more

Susan Taylor from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Diego, USA,

presented the Biochemical Society Centenary Award Lecture at the College of Life Sciences on Monday, 14 July 2014.

Susan Taylor is  …more

Two Clinical PhD Fellowships are available within the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) in the fields of Cancer or Neurodegeneration

These Fellowships seek to provide state-of-the-art training in molecular rese …more