Today, the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) officially welcomed its 2026 cohort of PhD students to the Unit.

The new students were welcomed by third-year PhD student and MRC PPU PhD Student Representative, Sadik Elshani; MRC PPU General Manager, Dr Monika Zwirek; and MRC PPU PhD Programme Lead, Professor Gopal Sapkota.

A new study led by the Sapkota Lab, in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Neuroscience Discovery, has demonstrated that targeted protein degradation can selectively eliminate endogenous α-synuclein and suppress its pathological aggregation.

Two PhD students from the Madsen Lab at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU), Oliwia Mruk and Alexandra Musk, have developed optimised workflows for generating arterial- and venous-like endothelial cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

Dr Anna Pérez i Ràfols has received a prestigious five-year Wellcome Early-Career Award to establish an ambitious research programme investigating the molecular signals that protect cells under stress.

Everyone at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) is delighted to congratulate our former colleague, Professor Kei Sakamoto, on being awarded the 2026 Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Ex

The MRC PPU is the only research institute in the world dedicated to the study of the two post-translational modifications used most frequently to regulate protein functions in living cells.

Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome 13 (MTDPS13) is a rare and devastating mitochondrial disease that causes the loss of healthy mitochondria, leading to severe energy deficiency throughout the body and often resulting in early death. Currently, there are no effective treatments available.

We are delighted to announce that Odetta Antico and Prosenjit Pal have been awarded highly competitive Collaborative Research Network (CRN) Discovery Fellowships from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP), in partnership with

Researchers at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) at the University of Dundee have been awarded a series of major international research grants totalling $18 million from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiativeAligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, in partnership with

We are thrilled to announce that Kai Gallant, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Satpal Virdee, has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. This highly competitive grant will support their pioneering research into the hidden "switches" of the cellular world: the regulation of E3 ligases by cellular small molecules.