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

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

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

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

On the morning of Wednesday June 22nd three of the Unit's students, Laura Pearce, Kirsty Martin and Hilary Smith were awarded their PhD's by Lord Narin Patel, the Chancellor of the University of Dundee, at a graduation ceremony at the Caird Hall in t …more

Two previous members of the MRC-PPU, Beatrice Filippi and Elton Zeqiraj, were married on Saturday 25th June in Toronto, Canada. Beatrice and Elton were members of Dario Alessi's research group and are presumed to have got together whilst collaboratin …more

Anna Zagorska, an ex-MRC-PPU PhD student who worked in Dario Alessi's laboratory on the WNK and LKB1 signalling pathways, has been awarded a prestigious Human Frontiers Science Program Fellowship (HFSP)to undert …more

Laura Pearce who undertook her PhD research project in Dario Alessi's laboratory (October 2007 - December 2010) has been awarded the UK's most sought-after postdoctoral fellowship to work in the laboratory of Sadaf Farooqi at the University o …more