Miratul Muqit, a Wellcome Trust Clinical Investigator and PI based at the MRC-PPU has been selected for the prestigious European Molecular Biology Organisation Young Investigator Programme (EMBO YIP). …more

Two Sapkota lab PhD students, Luke Fulcher and Luke Hutchinson, won prizes for best posters at the sixth annual PiCLS symposium held at the West Park Conference Centre on 17th October, 2016. …more

We are delighted to announce that Helen Walden has been promoted to a chair at the University of Dundee where she will become its Professor of Protein Structure and Function. …more

Our ninth MRC PPU alumni interview is with Beatrice Maria Filippi, ex-postdoctoral researcher in the Alessi group. …more

A vital asset of the MRC-PPU is the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT). This division operates as a unique collaboration between world leading pharmaceutical companies and scientists in the MRC-PPU and signalling researchers at the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences. …more

The MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit has initiated a search for a new PI working in the area of protein phosphorylation and/or ubiquitylation. …more

Our eighth MRC PPU alumni interview is with Alberto Vitari, ex-PhD student who was supervised by Dario Alessi. …more

We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and experienced scientist with considerable expertise in mass spectrometry to take charge of running major research collaborative projects with the group leaders in the MRC PPU. …more

Dr Sambit Nanda has been awarded a research grant of £15,000 from Tenovus, Scotland to continue his exciting new research on inflammasomes. …more

Embryonic Stem Cells (ESCs) have the potential to provide tissue replacement therapies for a number of debilitating diseases. This is because ESCs have the capacity to differentiate into any cell type in the adult body, a property known as pluripotency. …more