Since Philip Cohen arrived in Dundee in 1971, as well as becoming one of the world's mostly highly cited biochemists and a leader in his field, he has been a major driving force in putting Dundee on the map in scientific terms. Not only did he es …more

David Komander, ex-PhD student of Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten (now working as a group leader at the LMB in Cambridge), and Sonja Flott, ex-PhD student of John Rouse (now working in Abcam in Cambridge) have had a new baby, Emma C. Komander.
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Congratulations to Laura Pearce, an ex-PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, who is currently a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in Sadaf Farooqi's laboratory at the Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge. Laura has received a ce …more

Mutations in the protein kinase PINK1 were discovered in 2004 in patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease. PINK1 is unique among all protein kinases since it contains an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting motif and its catalytic domain is also u …more

For the past 14 years the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been helping the pharmaceutical industry to initiate and accelerate that the development of drugs that target kinases and phosphatases in a unique collaboration, called the Division of Si …more

Representatives of Parkinson's UK and the J. Macdonald Menzies Charitable Trust, as well as Parkinson's patients, visited the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) on May 3rd to hear about exciting research developments on Parkinson's disease at …more

On the 23rd of March three staff from the MRC-PPU visited the Dundee University Nursery to have a fun half day of experimenting. Nicola Wood, Vicky McGuire and Gail Gilmour, assisted by Nursery staff, helped the children get hands-on with some messy, …more

Many congratulations to Ayaz, a PhD student in Dario Alessi's lab, for his award of the CLS Innovator of the Year Prize for the development of the ProteinGuru program that greatly facilitates the analysis of complex mass spectrometry data. Ayaz was n …more

The EMBO Journal Cover Contest, initiated by the editors of the journal in 2003, highlights the creative potential of the authors and readers of The EMBO Journal, and showcases the beauty they find in the scientific and non-scientific world around th …more

The British Biochemical Society has chosen Dr Kristopher Clark in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) at the University of Dundee to receive an Early Career Development Award in 2013.

These prizes are presented annually to four  …more