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Tom McWilliams, a postdoctoral researcher with the Ganley and Muqit labs, won the poster prize for Best Basic Science Poster (sponsored by Khondrion) at the recent Wellcome Trust Conference on 'Mitochon …more
Miratul Muqit, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow in the MRC PPU, has been elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Founded in 1518, the Royal College of Physicians is England's oldest medical institution and  …more
Our fourth alumni interview is with Mirela Delibegovic, ex-MRC PPU PhD student in Tricia Cohen's group. Click the MRC PPU Alumni Interview icon on the top of our website, or here to read the interview. …more
Our third alumni interview is with David Komander, ex-MRC PPU PhD student in Dario Alessi's group. Click the new MRC PPU Alumni Interview icon on the top of our website, or here to read the interview. …more
Bruker engineers are currently installing a novel, very fast Rapiflex MALDI TOF mass spectrometer in the facility of the MRC PPU. The Rapiflex mass spectrometer has an exceptional height of 294 cm and the facilit …more
Congratulations to Karim Labib, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy. The Royal Society of Edinburgh each year elects a select number of Fellows who have a …more
E3 ligases are one of the largest enzyme families and they confer substrate specificity in the ubiquitin conjugation process. E3 activity is often stringently regulated and aberrant activity is the hallmark of many diseases including neurodegeneratio …more
Our second alumni interview is with Claire Eyers, an ex-MRC PPU PhD student in Philip Cohen's group. Click the new MRC PPU Alumni Interview icon on the top of our website, or here to read the interview. …more
We have overhauled the International Centre for Kinase Profiling website which lists all of the kinase profiling services that the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) offers to enable researchers in both academic institutes  …more
Dr Helen Walden has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. The highly competitive awards are given to the best and most cre …more