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Tricia Cohen, Group Leader in the MRC-PPU, won the Rui Handicap Golf Tournament, a 36 hole event played on the Isla Canela and Benamore courses in southern Spain over 5 and 6 November 2003. Tricia was six shots clear of the lady competitor in second  …more
Sonja Flott joined the Unit in October 2003, having been awarded a prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Predoctoral Fellowship. The Predoctoral Fellowship scheme is a £1 million initiative from the MRC launched in October 2000 introducing salar …more
Dario Alessi and Grahame Hardie combined their scientific expertise to crack an important scientific problem.

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Dario Alessi from the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been awarded the Federation of Biochemical Societies' Anniversary Prize which he received at the FEBS meeting on Signal Transduction in Brussels on 6 July 2003.

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Dr Axel Knebel came second in the Inaugural Gannochy Trust Innovation Award of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which is awarded annually to a young entrepreneur under the age of 45 working in Scotland.

At the awards dinner held at Scone P …more
Tricia Cohen is very pleased to announce that two of her students who started their research together have successfully defended their theses at virtually the same time. Mirela Delibegovic presented a seminar and thesis concerning "In vivo effects of …more
Dario Alessi, from the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has been awarded a Pfizer Academic Award - his third award this year.

The Academic Awards are made based on work published in the previous two years that is nove …more
Tricia Cohen has been awarded a grant of £135,435 from January 2003 until December 2005 from Diabetes UK to investigate the roles of the glycogen-targeting subunits of protein phosphatase 1 in the action of insulin and the development of impaired glu …more
Dario Alessi, of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has rounded off an extraordinary year by winning the sixth high profile award of his career and the fourth this year.

Dario secured a highly prestigious Philip Lev …more
Philip Cohen has been awarded the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in Metabolic Research for his work on diabetes.

The award recognises his leading role in identifying how insulin accelerates the conversion o …more