News

New postdoc position in Dario Alessi's group currently being advertised, closing date 31st August 2009. For more info please click here …more
John Rouse's research group in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee have discovered a group of proteins acting like a `Swiss Army Knife' to repair damaged DNA in our cells, a finding which could  …more
Diabetes Research in Dundee was boosted by a donation of £12,500 from the Dundee and District Diabetes UK Volunteer Group, who handed over the cheque at the Wellcome Trust building on the 26th May. The funds will be used by Dr Kei Sakamoto's independ …more
Brian Hemmings, a postdoctoral fellow in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit for three years from 1980-1982, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, the highest accolade that a UK scientist can receive. 
Brian's election to the UK's 'S …more
This year's Monikie 10k run took place on Sunday 10th May. A number of people from the MRC Unit were brave enough to take part, including Maisie Harkins who raised a spectacular £625 in sponsorship for Dundee Diabetes Research. Maisie also managed to …more
A major mission of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit is to exploit the advances we and others have made in understanding signal transduction networks to help pharmaceutical companies develop the next generation signal transduction inhibitors to tr …more
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee, will today (April 29th) be presented with the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Achievement award.

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Hosea Handoyo, a graduate student in Philip Cohen's research group in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has received the 'Golden Spatula Award' for 2008. from the Royal Dutch Chemistry Society. This prize is awarded annually to the undergraduate …more
Xu Huang who was a postdoc in Dario Alessi's laboratory (2004-2008) has been awarded the 2008 Howard Elder Prize for his work that established the important role that the LKB1-AMPK pathway plays in suppressing tumourigenesis.

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Four postdoctoral researchers in Dario Alessi's lab have between them managed to produce four babies in recent months. Jeremy Nichols started the trend when his wife Jenny gave birth to Ainsley Ellen on the 31st October (Halloween) last year. Ainsley …more