A group of Parkinson’s patients and carers visited the unit last week to explore ways to best share information about the on-going PPU research. …more
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Tom Deegan, who has been working as a postdoctoral fellow in Karim Labib's laboratory since May 2015, has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship (£250,000 over 4 years). …more

We are organising a 'Dundee-Crick' Signalling meeting on 12-14 November 2017, that will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London. …more
The Affinity-directed PROtein Missile (AdPROM) system, described by the Sapkota lab in Open Biology, combines the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology and proteolysis to achieve a robust degradation of potentially any endogenous protein in cells. …more
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