Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, visited the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit on April 19 in her role as the President of Tenovus, a Scottish cancer charity. The Princess met John Rouse, one of the Unit's Programme Leaders, who was recently awarded the 2011 Tenovus Medal. Princess Anne also met Deputy Unit Director, Dario Alessi, who has received funding for some of his cancer research from Tenovus. Princess Anne also talked to two of Dario's students, Eva Sommer, who works on the role of the protein kinase SGK in cancer and Helen Woodruff, who is carrying out research to understand how mutations in the protein kinase PINK1 causes Parkinson's Disease.

[img=http://www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/img/news/PrincessAnneDA.jpg]Dario explaining to Princess Anne what his lab is working on