Miratul Muqit, a Wellcome Intermediate Fellow working with Dario Alessi, has been appointed a Consultant Neurologist at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Miratul was the first clinician to be appointed to the MRC-PPU and now becomes the first to reach the consultant clinical grade. Since his arrival in 2008, the MRC-PPU has recruited a further four clinicians, the largest number of any Division of the College of Life Sciences.