The SCottish Institute for ceLL Signalling (SCILLS) became a reality on October 1st 2008. With initial funding of £2 million per annum over the next five years from the Scottish Funding Council, its initial goa …more

Christian, a visiting postdoc to the MRC Unit from the University of TÃÂ_bingen, Germany, is working hard in Dario Alessi's lab at characterising various protein kinase inhibitors. However Christian has also been exploring fishing opportunities in l …more

The University of Dundee and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are pleased to announce new funding of almost £11 million from a consortium of pharmaceutical companies for the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT), a groundbreaking collabora …more

Miratul Muqit has started working in the MRC Unit, after being awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship, to carry out research on the Parkinson's disease associated kinases PINK1 and LRRK2. Miratul is a clinical neurologi …more

Peter Parker, a postdoctoral fellow in the MRC-PPU from 1979-1982 has sold the company he founded to Genentech for US $160 million.

Peter founded PIramed with Mike Waterfield, Paul Workman and Srivivas Akkaraju in 2003 to develop small mol …more

Tim Haystead, who worked in Philip Cohen's lab as a scientific officer from 1983-1985 and then carried out his PhD at Dundee with Grahame Hardie, has sold Serenex, the company he founded, to Pfizer for several hundred million US dollars.

T …more

Edmond Fischer, who with Edwin Krebs, discovered the first example of the regulation of protein function by reversible phosphorylation was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Dundee on June 20th, 2008. In 1955, Fischer and Kre …more

Kei Sakamoto, a programme leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, received New Investigator Award from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in May 2008 at the annual meeting of ACSM in Indianapolis, USA.

This award is in …more

A paper published by Philip Cohen's group in J. Cell Sci. (2008) 121, 149-154 entitled 'TPL2-mediated activation of ERK1 and ERK2 regulates the processing of pre-TNFÃ_± in LPS-stimulated macrophages' has been highlighted as the Editor's Choice in th …more

Dario Alessi, Deputy Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Professor of Cell Signalling in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of London, the hig …more