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Philip Cohen, the Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has reached a scientific milestone with the publication of his 500th paper. Last year, Philip was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences, whic …more
Olga Göransson, an Assistant Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden, and Kei Sakamoto, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, have been awarded an international collaboration grant (1050,000 Swedish Krona; approximately …more
Elton Zeqiraj, who holds a Tenovus Studentship and is jointly supervised by Daan van Aalten, a structural biologist in the College of Life Sciences (CLS) at the University of Dunde …more
Philip Cohen's Group relaxing after their lab retreat at the Ballathie House Hotel, Perthsire. The 45lb (20kg) salmon in the glass case was caught in the River Tay which flows through the garden of the hotel. …more
Following, a major award to set up the National Kinase Profiling Centre in 2008, The MRC-PPU has now received two further awards to enhance its major collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.

Carol MacKintosh and Nick Morrice have  …more
On Thursday February 5th, at the Annual Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Award dinner at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Philip Cohen was the winner in the 'leading individual contribution to the Life Sciences in Scotland' award. The …more
A book entitled "The New Scottish Enlightenment" has just been published by The Times Group to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and sponsored by Event Scotland and Scottish Development International. One of the invited ar …more
Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi have been awarded a new Parkinson's Disease Society PhD studentship to identify substrates and regulation of the Parkinson's disease associated protein kinase PINK1.

For further details and how to apply plea …more
Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council's Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Dundee, and Director-Designate of the newly established Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling (SCILLS),  …more
Hosea Handoyo, a PhD student in Philip Cohen's laboratory, has been awarded a prestigious pre-doctoral Research Fellowship from the Boehringer-Ingelheim Foundation. The award of €2000 per month will provide Hosea's stipend for two years with t …more