Susan Taylor from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Diego, USA,

presented the Biochemical Society Centenary Award Lecture at the College of Life Sciences on Monday, 14 July 2014.

Susan Taylor is  …more

Two Clinical PhD Fellowships are available within the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU) in the fields of Cancer or Neurodegeneration

These Fellowships seek to provide state-of-the-art training in molecular rese …more

The Rouse lab featured recently in a video to help the local charity Worldwide Cancer Research, with the idea of explaining to potential donors how scientific research works and to outline what it is that scientists actually do on a day-to-day basis. …more

New research has uncovered how a complex protein pivotal in the development of viral infection and autoimmune diseases is activated. The discovery answers a key question about one of the most widely-researched proteins in human biology, which has be …more

Congratulations to Esther Sammler who has been awarded a highly prestigious £30,000 starter grant for clinical lecturers by the

Academy of Medical Sciences. The scheme funds outstanding, research a …more

Agne Kazlauskaite, a PhD student in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, has been selected to attend the prestigious Roche Continents programme that will take place in Salzburg, Austr …more

Philip Cohen, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC-PPU), has been awarded the 2014 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science from the World Cultural Counc …more

Congratulations to Lina Herhaus and Mazin Al-Salihi, of Gopal Sapkota's lab, for publishing a paper in Open Biology that describes how USP15 regulates the BMP pathway by deubiquitylating the type I BMP receptor, ALK3.



BMPs bel …more

Several MRC-PPU researchers took part in this weekend's Monikie 10k run

Results from left to right were:

Sambit Nanda 01:12:13
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A quick google search for ‘kinase profiling' yields the International Centre for Kinase Profiling (ICKP), housed in the MRC-PPU as the top-hit. Established as a service in 1998, the ICKP works with academic labs, biotechnology and pharmaceut …more