The J Macdonald Menzies Charitable Trust have awarded Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi funding to support a new Prize studentship to investigate the molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease.

This 4-year studentship will build on  …more

The news has just come through that Claire Eyers (nee Haydon), a Ph.D. student in Philip Cohen's lab in the MRC-PPU from 1998-2002, has been promoted to a Professorship i …more

As part of this year's Dundee Science Festival the MRC-PPU hosted an interactive panel discussion on November 13th. A dark and stormy evening was illuminated within the university's Dalhousie Buildi …more

What do science and fun have in common? A lot it turns out – as visitors abundantly discovered on their recent visit to The Dundee Science Centre for Family Fun Day on November 2nd, all a part of 2014 the  …more

James Ozanne, an undergraduate student from the University of Bath working under the direction of Kristopher Clark, has discovered that, in addition to their anti-cancer properties, the drugs Bosutinib and Dasatinib also possess potent anti-inflammat …more

One of the most striking features of chromosome replication in eukaryotic cells is that it only happens once in each cell cycle. This makes DNA replication very different to transcription, during which each gene is copied many times into RNA. Where …more

MRC-PPU PI Vicky Cowling has been awarded the inaugural Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal by the British Society for Cell Biology …more

Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) phosphorylate the 3'-position hydroxyl of the D-myo-inositol head group of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) to generate 3-phosphoinositides that play critical in orchestrating a wide range of biological responses includ …more

The potential to develop new drugs to target a class of enzymes which are implicated in major diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative conditions has been boosted with the development of a new drug discovery method in a research effort performed …more

Earlier this month the MRC-PPU football team participated for the first time in the College of Life Sciences football tournament, playing three matches:

Game 1 against the Division of Molecular Microbiology (MMB) - who just happen to be l …more