Calum Sutherland, a Wellcome Career Development Fellow who has been running his research group within the MRC Unit over the past 5 years, has been appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Dundee's Medical School located at Ninewells Hospital, two miles west of the MRC Unit on the main campus. Calum, who obtained his PhD with Philip Cohen in 1994, took up his new position on 17 March 2002, but expects to maintain close contacts with the Unit through his work in the areas of insulin signalling and diabetes.