Each year the Scotland on Sunday newspaper publishes the Power 100 list, in which a panel of judges assess the relative impact that different individuals are having in Scotland. This year, the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit's Director leaped 64 places in the list to number 32. The judges seemed particularly impressed by Philip's role in a multi-million pound deal which persuaded six of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to work in collaboration with the Unit to accelerate the development of novel drugs to treat disease that target particular protein kinases. Termed the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy, it is now widely recognised as a model for collaboration between Academia and Industry and this year gained the Queen's Anniversary Award for Higher Education, which was awarded to Philip by the Queen at Buckingham Palace in February.

The new ranking puts Philip 4 places ahead of Sir Tom McKillop, the former CEO of AstraZeneca, who recently became the Deputy Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, 13 places ahead of Jack Perry, the CEO of Scottish Enterprise, and no less than 52 places ahead of Walter Smith, the manager of Scotland's soccer team! Philip was also well ahead of all the Vice Chancellors who run the major Universities in Scotland.