Ian Ganley and Matthias Trost who have recently been appointed as programme leaders at the MRC PPU each have a PhD project available for October 2010.

For further information on their PhD projects click here and click here  …more

Two new postdoc positions have become available in Dario Alessi's lab. Click here for details. …more

The Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee has made a second major appointment within a week, having recruited Dr Matthias Trost as a new Programme Leader.

Dr Trost, who is currently worki …more

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Edgar da Cruz e Silva on March 2nd 2010 after a long battle against cancer. Edgar, who worked in the Protein Phosphorylation Group from 1983-1988, just before it became the MRC Protein Phosphoryla …more

The Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee has made a key scientific appointment with the recruitment of Dr Ian Ganley from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA.

Dr Ganley, wh …more

On Wednesday March 10th, Sir Philip Cohen, the Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and the Scottish Institute for Cell Signaling, will give the MRC Basic Science Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Toxicology, Salt L …more

Fatema Rafiqi for her PhD project, chose to study the role of the protein kinase SPAK that that had previously been discovered to be activated by the WNK1 kinase by an ex-MRC Unit PhD student, Alberto Vitari. Mutations that increase expressio …more

Elton Zeqiraj an MRC Unit PhD student jointly supervised by Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten has been awarded the 2009 Howard Elder Prize for Cancer Research for his spectacular P …more

Emma Carrick successfully defended her thesis on the 7th January with Peter Roepstorff from the University of Southern Denmark and Dimitris Xirodimas as her examiners. Peter is semi-retired and is really the godfather of proteomics in Europe, having  …more

Three Medical Research Council Units in Scotland have set up an exchange seminar programme for their PhD students. The MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at Dundee, the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Edinburgh and the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit  …more