For the second consecutive year we have successfully secured one of the new highly prestigious Predoctoral Fellowships offered by the Medical Research Council (MRC). David Komander will join the groups of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi in June 2002 …more

Dario Alessi has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 34 Dario is one of the youngest scientists to have received this accolade. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is one of the world's oldest scientific societies and wa …more

Dr Hilary Snaith who obtained her PhD with Tricia Cohen in 1996 has been awarded a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to work on mechanisms underlying cellular polarity in fission yeast. …more

Dario has also just been awarded the Young Investigator G B Morgagni Prize for 2002, which consists of a silver medal and $8000. This prize is conferred every 2 years for a researcher under 40 years of age for "outstanding achievements in the field o …more

John Rouse, who obtained his PhD with Philip Cohen in 1996, is rejoining the Unit in October 2002 as a Programme Leader. For the past six years John has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Steve Jackson at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridg …more

Dario Alessi, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the "missing link" in insulin signal transduction.
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Simon Dowler, a student with Dario Alessi, presented a seminar entitled "Cloning and characterisation of novel Pleckstrin homology domain-containing proteins" on 23rd January 2002 and was then examined by Dr. Len Stephens (The Babraham Institute, Cam …more

Local school students were introduced to research in the School of Life Sciences in a series of Royal Society of Edinburgh Start-up Science Masterclasses. In the final class, the students became wonderfully enthusiastic forensic scientists. Displayin …more

The MRC Council has increased the Unit's funding by £3 million bringing its budget for 5 years to almost £7.5 million. The Unit's Director, Sir Philip Cohen, said: "This is excellent news which acknowledges the Unit's pre-eminence in this field world …more

Dario Alessi has been shortlisted for the first Young European Prize for Invention and Discovery. Dario and two other finalists selected from 20 entrants who applied from all over the world, will present their ideas to the judges on October 21st (the …more