Congratulations to Shuai Chen, from Carol MacKintosh's group, who will soon be taking up a PI position at the Model Animal Research Center (MARC), Medical School of Nanjing University, one of the to …more

Kris Clark, a postdoc in Philip Cohen's lab has recently discovered a key role for the IÃ_ºB kinase (IKK)-related protein kinases (IKKÃ_µ and TBK1) in suppressing the activities of the canonical IKKs (IKKÃ_± and IKKÃ_Â_) when the innate immune sys …more

On September 6 2011, MRC-PPU Director, Philip Cohen, gave the opening keynote lecture of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (SEBBM), which was sponsored by The Fundacion Ramon Areces Foundation, which was held in Barcelona. Phil …more

The September 14th 2011 issue of Lab Times has published citation data for the period 1998-2009 in the field of "Protein Research". MRC-PPU Programme Leaders Philip Cohen and Dario Alessi were named as the 8th and 13th most cited European scientists …more

Cameron Spencer, a student at the High School of Dundee, spent 4 weeks between his 5th and 6th years, gaining laboratory experience in the College of Life Sciences Media Kitchen, Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) and MRC Protein Phosphor …more

Juan M. Garcia-Martinez, until recently a postdoc in Dario Alessi's group, has been presented with the Biochemical Journal 'Signal' Paper of the Year 2011 award for the most-cited research article, his paper [i]'mTOR complex 2 (mTORC2) controls h …more

John Rouse, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU), has been awarded a Personal Chair in Chromosome Biology by the University of Dundee in recognition of his outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mole …more

Congratulations to Shuai Chen, postdoc in Carol MacKintosh's group, for winning the 2011 Tim Hunt Prize for Cell Biology for his work on complementary roles of AS160 and TBC1D1 in regulating glucose uptake into muscle in response to insulin and energ …more

Professor Dario Alessi FRS, FRSE , has been appointed Director of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee. He will succeed the current Director, Sir Philip Cohen in April 2012.

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Nick Lydon, who initiated and drove the programme at Novartis, that led to the development of Gleevec, the first drug developed by targeting a specific protein kinase, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Dundee at the L …more