Dr Victoria Cowling, of the University of Dundee, has been awarded a prestigious Medical Research Council Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship to continue her ground breaking research on how mutations in cancer genes can result in tumours forming.

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Miratul Muqit, a Clinician and Programme Leader in the MRC-PPU, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Senior Res …more

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position to work with Dr Matthias Trost on a project aimed at studying cell signalling events affecting phagosome maturation. Phagosomes are organelles formed by the uptake of particulate material by s …more

Our Unit is an exciting and dynamic place to do a PhD. We have world-class, state-of-the art facilities, we have Principal Investigators who are field-leaders and we have fantastic resources all of our researchers tap into. These include a range of s …more

New exciting computational proteomics Postdoctoral Research Assistant position available within the group of Patrick Pedrioli. We are looking for somebody to develop bioinformatic tools for proteomics data analysis, that will help us in the study …more

We are very excited to announce that two new members of the DNA sequencing team have arrived and are already performing outstanding work. Their names are Bert and Ernie, which in a departure from previous naming conventions, are not members of Donald …more

As part of the MRC's week of Centenary Celebrations, the MRC-PPU held an Open Day on Parkinson's disease to showcase cutting edge research being undertaken at the Unit that one day may lead to new treatmen …more

We are delighted to announce that the outcome of our recent quinquennial review has been very successful and the Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded our Unit approximately £24million core funding over the next five years to enable its research …more

As part of MRC's week of Centenary Celebrations, the MRC-PPU is collaborating with the Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)on their screening of the 'I AM BREATHING' documentary. The film is a personal account of the last months in the life of Neil Platt w …more

To launch the Medical Research Council (MRC) centenary celebrations, its chief executive Sir John Savill, gave an inspirational presentation on the history and past achievements of this fabulous organisation that has thus far supported the work that  …more