Professor Sir Philip Cohen, of the University of Dundee, will receive the highest award given by the Medical Research Council at a ceremony in the House of Commons today, Wednesday 27th February.

The Millenium Medal is the MRC's most prest …more

The Colworth Medal is awarded by the Biochemical Society to ‘an outstanding young British biochemist' under the age of 36. On Thursday 21 February the Biochemical Society ce …more

Gordon's hypertension syndrome is caused by mutations that increase expression of WNK1 protein kinase as well as specific missense mutations lying within a non-catalytic region of the WNK4 protein kinase. Patients with this condition suffer from high …more

We are delighted that our newest PI recruit, Yogesh Kulathu, will starting his independent laboratory within the MRC-PPU today, February 1st 2013. Until now Yogesh has been undertaking tremendous postdoctoral research in  …more

The Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling (SCILLS) and the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit will be merging into a new MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the end of March 2013.

To mark this important event, but also to …more

The Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) is a unique collaboration between scientists in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, and six of the world's leading pharmaceutical compan …more

Exciting research postdoctoral positions available in Dario Alessi's lab - please click here for further information …more

We are delighted to announce that Dr Nicholas Helps has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in the Management of Occupational Health and Safety that he undertook via distance learning with Portsmouth University. The course duration was 12 months and …more

Researchers of the laboratories of Matthias Trost in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Patrick Pedrioli in SCILLS have developed, in collaboration with Thermo-Fisher Scientific,  …more

Daan van Aalten and his research group working on carbohydrate signalling in mammalian cells have joined the MRC-PPU.

Daan's work on the regulation and function of the O-GlcNAc modification and how this impacts on biological processes rela …more