The Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling (SCILLS) and the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit will be merging into a new MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the end of March 2013.

To mark this important event, but also to …more

The Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) is a unique collaboration between scientists in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, and six of the world's leading pharmaceutical compan …more

Exciting research postdoctoral positions available in Dario Alessi's lab - please click here for further information …more

We are delighted to announce that Dr Nicholas Helps has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in the Management of Occupational Health and Safety that he undertook via distance learning with Portsmouth University. The course duration was 12 months and …more

Researchers of the laboratories of Matthias Trost in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Patrick Pedrioli in SCILLS have developed, in collaboration with Thermo-Fisher Scientific,  …more

Daan van Aalten and his research group working on carbohydrate signalling in mammalian cells have joined the MRC-PPU.

Daan's work on the regulation and function of the O-GlcNAc modification and how this impacts on biological processes rela …more

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Protein kinases are one of the pharmaceutical industry's most important classes of drug target. Nineteen protein kinase inhibitors have been approved for clinical use and ov …more

A team of postgraduate students from the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee has won the Scottish round of the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) qualifying them for the finals in London in December.

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Jamie Wilson from the MRC PPU was one of the four joint winners of this year's poster exhibition by PhD students in College of Life Sciences entering their 3rd year. Jamie, who has trained as a pathologist, is currently a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fell …more

Well done to Gerta Hoxhaj for her successful PhD viva, held on October 5th 2012 on her work on the E3 ubiquitin ligase ZNRF2. (Hoxhaj is pronounced HOJ-EYE with a long O, and 'XH' in the Albanian alphabet sounds like 'J').

Gerta is Carol …more