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

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

Scientists at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit have discovered that 'molecular scissors' that repair damaged and abnormal DNA are critical for keeping cancers at bay.



The laboratory of Professor John Rou …more

MRC PPU Lab Manager, Allison Bridges, today celebrates 15 years service having joined the Unit on February 1st, 2001 as support technician.

Presenting Allison with a bottle of 15-year old rum to mark the occasion, Unit Director Dario Ales …more

There was a lot of excitement 11 years ago when it was discovered that autosomal dominant missense mutations within the gene encoding for a previously unstudied protein kinase termed LRRK2 (leucine-rich repeat protein kinase 2) predispose humans to d …more

We want to capture some of the major achievements of students and postdocs who trained at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU), and have created a new feature on our website the 'MRC PPU Alumni Interview'. These interview …more

We have completely overhauled the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) reagents and services website which lists all of the MRC-PPU's, cDNA clones, antibodies and recombinant proteins that have been generated over the years i …more

Congratulations to Mirela Delibegovic, a PhD student in Tricia Cohen's laboratory from 1999 to 2003, on her recent promotion to Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK! M …more