Four postdoctoral researchers in Dario Alessi's lab have between them managed to produce four babies in recent months. Jeremy Nichols started the trend when his wife Jenny gave birth to Ainsley Ellen on the 31st October (Halloween) last year. Ainsley …more

David Komander, who was a joint PhD student in the laboratories of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi, received the Early Career Research Award from the Biochemical Society on 2- …more

Philip Cohen, the Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has reached a scientific milestone with the publication of his 500th paper. Last year, Philip was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences, whic …more

Olga Göransson, an Assistant Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden, and Kei Sakamoto, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, have been awarded an international collaboration grant (1050,000 Swedish Krona; approximately …more

Elton Zeqiraj, who holds a Tenovus Studentship and is jointly supervised by Daan van Aalten, a structural biologist in the College of Life Sciences (CLS) at the University of Dunde …more

Philip Cohen's Group relaxing after their lab retreat at the Ballathie House Hotel, Perthsire. The 45lb (20kg) salmon in the glass case was caught in the River Tay which flows through the garden of the hotel. …more

Following, a major award to set up the National Kinase Profiling Centre in 2008, The MRC-PPU has now received two further awards to enhance its major collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.

Carol MacKintosh and Nick Morrice have  …more

On Thursday February 5th, at the Annual Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Award dinner at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Philip Cohen was the winner in the 'leading individual contribution to the Life Sciences in Scotland' award. The …more

A book entitled "The New Scottish Enlightenment" has just been published by The Times Group to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and sponsored by Event Scotland and Scottish Development International. One of the invited ar …more

Miratul Muqit and Dario Alessi have been awarded a new Parkinson's Disease Society PhD studentship to identify substrates and regulation of the Parkinson's disease associated protein kinase PINK1.

For further details and how to apply plea …more