Dr Xingui Liu has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to undertake research in the lab of Professor Alessio Ciulli in the newly established Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD). The project is in collaboration with Professor Dario Alessi from the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit and a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

A delegation from National Innovation Centre (Nepal) led by its Chairperson Dr. Mahabir Pun and European coordinator Hari K. Neupane, visited the MRC PPU on 13th April 2022.

A delegation from National Innovation Centre (Nepal) led by its Chairperson Dr. Mahabir Pun and European coordinator Hari K. Neupane, visited the MRC PPU on 13th April 2022.

We are delighted to announce that Jin Rui (Amos) Liang, who will open an independent research laboratory within the MRC PPU during the summer of 2022, has been awarded a highly sought after Career Development Fellowship from Cancer Research UK to study a novel association between endoplasmic reticulum-speci

Ubiquitylation was discovered over 40 years ago as a mechanism that marks proteins for destruction by the proteasome. Since then, ubiquitylation has been found to regulate protein function in other ways, but the concept that proteins are the sole targets of ubiquitylation has never altered.

Jin Rui (Amos) Liang will open an independent research laboratory within the MRC PPU during the summer of 2022

Olivia James, a Wellcome Trust PhD student in Dr. Mahima Swamy’s lab in the MRC PPU has been awarded the Dundee Prize for Molecular and Cellular Biology 2021.

Dr Nicola Darling, a senior postdoc in in Sir Philip Cohen’s lab in the MRC PPU, has been awarded the prestigious School of Life Sciences People’s Award.

Mutations in PINK1 are the second most frequent cause of autosomal recessive early-onset Parkinson’s disease. PINK1 is activated upon mitochondrial damage to phosphorylate Ubiquitin and Parkin to stimulate Parkin E3 ligase activity, and this is critical for removal of damaged mitochondria by autophagy (mitophagy).

Two researchers from the MRC PPU have been awarded places in the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) Forging Futures Scheme.