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

Formation of a Protein Ubiquitination Unit

The Scottish Government has recently announced that they are providing funding to form the Scottish Institute for cell Signalling (SCILLS), which will be set up on the campus of t …more

Olga Ananieva, a postdoctoral researcher in Simon Arthur's lab and Simon Morton who obtained his PhD in Philip Cohen's lab in 2004, were married on the 4th of April at the Ceremony Rooms in Glasgow

Olga and Simon are the ninth pair of stud …more

It was announced on March 20th that Philip Cohen has receive the 2009 Society for Biomolecular Sciences' Achievement Award in recognition of his 'key contributions in the area of kinase research that led to the discovery of many therapeutic targets a …more

Philip Cohen has been elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his significant contributions to science. Membership of the NAS is one of the highest honours given to a scientist or engineer in the Un …more