From 26th - 30th January 2004, the Unit's Director, Philip Cohen, was a guest of The British Council in West and South India, participating in their "Ambassador's Programme". Over the first five days he and Tricia visited The National Chemical Labora …more

The Moffat Charitable Trust recently donated £75,000 to the Unit, to fund a PhD student in Dario Alessi's laboratory, researching an area of diabetes. Abdallah Al-Hakim has been appointed to the studentship. Born in Egypt, Abdallah's family moved to  …more

The image on the 2003 MRC Christmas/New Year card is a painting inspired by the research of our Unit. The artist is Dr Lizzie Burns, who is based in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The picture is entitled "Insulin binding  …more

According to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia (ISI), a study published in 1995 by three of the Unit's PIs (Dario Alessi, Ana Cuenda and Philip Cohen) in collaboration with David Dudley and Alan Saltiel of the Parke-Davis Pharm …more

In November 2003, Gopal Sapkota, a former PhD student with Dario Alessi, was awarded a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Gopak was one of 19 recipients of this prestigious award, selected from a pool …more

On 28 November the University of Dundee received The President's Award for 2003 from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI). This is the SCDI's premier award and was made to the School of Life Sciences and the Medical School in reco …more

On 17 November at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, Sir Philip Cohen was made an Honorary Member of the British Biochemical Society together with Nobel Laureate Sidney Brenner and Sir Alec Jeffreys, all of whom received speciall …more

Dr Jean Harthill, a postdoctoral researcher in Carol Mackintosh's lab was one of two finalist in the "sunshine" category of the Women Who Mean Business Awards, which were presented at a dinner at the Invercarse Hotel, Dundee on 14 November. The Women …more

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