James Woodgett, who received his PhD in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit in 1984 and is currently a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto is to become the Research Director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Also based in Toronto the Lunenfeld is recognised as Canada's top Life Sciences Institute and includes many world renowned researchers in the area of cell signalling and cancer including Tony Pawson, Mike Tyers and Alan Bernstein.