Congratulations to MRC PPU Postdoctoral Scientist Prosenjit Pal for winning the Best ECR Poster Award at the 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025, Lorne, Australia. Prosenjit's poster is entitled - Novel Motif in Several Proteins Interacting with a Lysosomal Membrane Integral Protein Implies a Link between Ubiquitylation, Autophagy, and Ciliogenesis

Dr. Ralitsa Madsen, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Principal Investigator in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU), has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal in Life Sciences for 2025. The medal recognises exceptional early-career contributions to advancing knowledge in the life sciences.

We’re delighted to announce that PhD students Juliette Barber and Jessica Rowe, both from the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, have been awarded joint 1st prize for their poster presentations at this year’s 3rd year PhD poster symposium in the School of Life Sciences.

On Tuesday 22nd July, staff and students from across the School of Life Sciences gathered in The Street to celebrate a truly momentous occasion: the 80th birthday of Sir Philip Cohen, a scientific giant, visionary leader, and the architect of modern life sciences in Dundee.

We’re delighted to congratulate Yana Korenchuk, an undergraduate summer student in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, on winning First Prize at the School of Life Sciences (SLS) Summer School Poster Session.

We’re delighted to share that Ian Ganley was recently interviewed for a podcast by the North of Scotland Parkinson’s Research Interest Group.

The Sir James Black Award is an annual prize presented by the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee to the final year undergraduate student deemed to have made the most outstanding contribution to research during their final year project.

Dr Thomas McWilliams, a former postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Professors Ian Ganley and Miratul Muqit, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Young Scientist Anders Jahre Award for Medical Research—a distinguished honour recognising groundbreaking contributions to Nordic basic medical science.