We are pleased to announce that Vicky Cowling and her research group including PhD Students (Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Michael Aregger, Sianadh Dunn, Anna Kelner, Laura Grasso) and postdoc (Nicola Phillips) will be moving into the MRC PPU on Ju …more

Saif El-Din Shehata graduated from the University of Dundee with a MSc by Research on Thursday June 21st 2012. He did his MSc in the lab of Professor Kei Sakamoto at the MRC PPU, Kei is now working at the Nestle Institute for Health Science (NIHS), …more

The transforming growth factor-Ã_Â_ (TGFÃ_Â_) signalling pathway plays critical roles through embryogenesis and in adult tissue homeostasis. Consequently, abnormal TGFÃ_Â_ signalling is associated with numerous human diseases, including immune disord …more

A new affinity tag for the purification of recombinant proteins termed the ‘Dac-tag' has been developed by Axel Knebel who is the head of the Protein Production and Assay Development team at SCILLS. Together with the MRC and SCILLS cloning team …more

Eeva Sommer, a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, working on the role of SGK in cancer, recently got married. What was most impressive was that Eeva was still in the lab on the Friday, the day before the wedding and back in the lab again on Monday.  …more

Since Philip Cohen arrived in Dundee in 1971, as well as becoming one of the world's mostly highly cited biochemists and a leader in his field, he has been a major driving force in putting Dundee on the map in scientific terms. Not only did he es …more

David Komander, ex-PhD student of Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten (now working as a group leader at the LMB in Cambridge), and Sonja Flott, ex-PhD student of John Rouse (now working in Abcam in Cambridge) have had a new baby, Emma C. Komander.
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Congratulations to Laura Pearce, an ex-PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, who is currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in Sadaf Farooqi's laboratory at the Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge. Laura has received a ce …more

Mutations in the protein kinase PINK1 were discovered in 2004 in patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease. PINK1 is unique among all protein kinases since it contains an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting motif and its catalytic domain is also u …more

For the past 14 years the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been helping the pharmaceutical industry to initiate and accelerate that the development of drugs that target kinases and phosphatases in a unique collaboration, called the Division of Si …more