Emma Carrick successfully defended her thesis on the 7th January with Peter Roepstorff from the University of Southern Denmark and Dimitris Xirodimas as her examiners. Peter is semi-retired and is really the godfather of proteomics in Europe, having  …more

Three Medical Research Council Units in Scotland have set up an exchange seminar programme for their PhD students. The MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at Dundee, the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Edinburgh and the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit  …more

Professor Salvador Moncada, Director of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College London, has received a knighthood in the Queen's New Years Honours List published today. Sir Salvador, who gave the first Dundee Cell Signali …more

Kei Sakamoto, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Alexandar Jovanovic, Ninewells Hospital Medical School, University of Dundee have been awarded £168,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

Heart and circulatory …more

Olga Göransson, an Assistant Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden, and Kei Sakamoto, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, have recently been awarded an international collaboration grant from the Swedish Foundation for I …more

Much research in the MRC PPU over the last 11 years has focused on understanding the roles of the LKB1 tumour suppressor protein kinase, as loss of function mutations in this enzyme are frequently observed to promote cancer. Some progress has been ma …more

Three teams of researchers – that include Dario Alessi and John Rouse – have received £16.99 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (MRC) to bolster research into devastating neurodegenerative diseases …more

A paper published by Sir Philip Cohen and members of his research team in 2000 has been named as Europe's most influential publication over the period 1996-2007 in an article published in the September 2009 issue of Lab Times using information in Tho …more

Elton Zeqiraj, who has been working jointly in the labs of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi for nearly the last 4 years on structural analysis of the LKB1 complex, has been awarded his PhD. Pictured is Elton celebrating his success with his two exami …more

Charlotte Green, a graduate student co-supervised by Harinder Hundal (Division of Molecular Physiology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) and Kei Sakamoto (MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit), successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled …more