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

Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council's Protein Phosphorylation Unit, Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Dundee, and Director-Designate of the newly established Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling (SCILLS),  …more

Hosea Handoyo, a PhD student in Philip Cohen's laboratory, has been awarded a prestigious pre-doctoral Research Fellowship from the Boehringer-Ingelheim Foundation. The award of €2000 per month will provide Hosea's stipend for two years with t …more

New Group Leader Gopal Sapkota arrived in Dundee on the 1st November to start his laboratory in the TGFbeta signalling pathway. Previously Gopal worked for five years in Joan Massagué's laboratory at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New …more

Ian Kelsall, a student in Tricia Cohen's group, successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Roles of the glycogen targeting subunits of protein phosphatase 1 in the tissue-specific regulation of glycogen metabolism " on October 23rd 2008. Ian ga …more

Jim Woodgett, who carried out his Ph.D. in Philip Cohen's laboratory over the period 1981-1984, gave an Alumnus Lecture to the MRC-PPU and the College of Life Sciences on October 22nd 2008 entitled 'Genetic analysis of GSK‑3 in insulin and Wnt …more

The Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee has been awarded £989,000 to set up the UK's National Centre for Protein Kinase Profiling, a unique service which will widen academic access to one of the fastest d …more