The Unit has received the very sad news that Alastair Aitken, a former postdoc in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has died from pancreatic cancer. Alastair was born in Dundee and left High School at the age of 16 to work in an oil company in the …more

The Academy of Medical Sciences announced this week that MRC-PPU Director Dario Alessi will deliver the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in the Medical Sciences on 2 July 2014, as part of the annual Fellows Admission Day. Dario w …more

Congratulations to Lina Herhaus, PhD student in Gopal Sapkota's lab, on being a recipient of the 2013 Tim Hunt Prize for Cell Biology for her work on elucidating the role of OTUB1 in the TGF-beta pathway.

The Tim Hunt prize for Cell Bi …more

Congratulations to Karim Labib, who has just been awarded a Senior Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust, which will amount to £1.8 million of funding over the next five years. These awards are intended to provide flexible support to the best  …more

Much work in Dario Alessi's lab over the last 10 years has focused on understanding the function and regulation of the WNK1 and WNK4 family of protein kinases whose overexpression in humans causes Gordon's hypertension syndrome. Patients with thi …more

Helen Walden's lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control attachment of ubiquitin (a protein tag or signal) to its targets. Attachment requires the sequential action of 3 enzymes, E1, E2 and E3. E2s and E3s interact with each other to allow t …more

We warmly welcome Sonal Das, who joined the MRC-PPU on Monday 6th January.

Sonal will play a major role in helping to further develop the MRC-PPU. This will include organising our public engagement in science activities, taking charge of …more

Dr Miratul Muqit, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Programme Leader in the MRC-PPU, has been awarded the prestigious 2013 Linacre Medal and Pri …more

Patrick Pedrioli has been awarded a £400,703 BBSRC responsive mode research grant to further his research into the function and regulation of tRNA post-transcriptional modifications.

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Well done to Eeva Sommer a PhD Student Dario Alessi's lab who successfully defended her PhD thesis on better understanding of the roles that SGK isoforms play in breast cancer. Her work has revealed that high levels of SGK isoforms and phosphorylati …more