We are delighted that Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck KGaA have pledged £7.5 million to allow the University of Dundee’s Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) to continue its collaborative work.

The DSTT comprises 23 research teams at Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, 13 of which are based within the MRC PPU.

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The three-year alliance will allow knowledge, skills and technology sharing, as well as two joint postdoctoral positions, in order to accelerate discoveries on molecular metabolic signalling in control of glucose homeostasis …more

A joint effort from researchers in Dr. Satpal Virdee’s group at the University of Dundee and Prof. Michael Coleman’s group at the University of Cambridge has uncovered a potential new strategy for treating neurodegeneration.

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Congratulations to Ana Belen Perez Oliva on being awarded Spain's most prestigious JIN (Jovenes INvestigadores/Young Researchers) fellowship to establish an independent research programme at the University of Murcia.


Ana undertook postdoctoral research in the MRC PPU between 2011-2015 in Dario Alessi's lab, where she worked on deciphering the role of the USP45 deubiquitylase.

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Atul Kumar has recently been awarded Har-Gobind Khorana Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Indian Government.

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The ability to selectively and rapidly degrade a protein of interest (POI) inside cells is desirable for studying its function and in therapeutics. Previously, the Sapkota Lab had developed the Affinity-directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) system for constitutive degradation of POIs (Fulcher et al., 2016 & 2017).

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The Sapkota lab developed the Affinity-directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) system for targeted degradation of endogenous proteins inside cells. In principle, by deploying binders of specific proteins attached to destruction signals as “protein missiles”, any intracellular protein can be destroyed rapidly.

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Elena Purlyte, a PhD student in Professor Dario Alessi’s lab in the MRC PPU, has been issued with a commendation by the University Principal for her contributions to academic excellence, student representation and leadership in the School of Life Sciences.

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Alban Ordureau, a PhD student and then postdoc in Philip Cohen’s lab from 2008-2013 has been appointed Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Cell Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, one of the world’s leading cancer researc

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Researchers within the Reagents and Services (R&S) division of the MRC PPU and the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) have worked extremely hard since January in order to produce expression plasmids, proteins and sheep affinity purified polyclonal antibodies to all 28 proteins encoded for by SARS-CoV-2.

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