The Scottish Government announced on April 20th that they were providing £10 million to help set up the Scottish Institute for ceLL Signalling (SCILLS) in Dundee. The founding Director of the Institute will be Sir Philip Cohen, who is currently the …more
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Previous work in the MRC Unit has suggested that activating the AMPK pathway using clinically approved anti-diabetes drugs such as metformin could be employed to suppress tumour formation. This would inhibit cell growth by tricking a cancer cell into …more
Doron Rosenzweig who joined Tricia Cohen's research group in February 2008 has received an award from the Joan and Reginald Coleman-Cohen fund to contribute to his postdoctoral studies in the Unit. Prior to his move to Dundee, Doron carried out his …more
Kei Sakamoto, a programme leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has been selected to receive a New Investigator Award from the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. He will receive this prestig …more
Gerardo Gamba (Universidad Nacional Autonoma México), one of the founders of the ion cotransporter field of research, visited the MRC Unit with two of his colleagues - Diana Pacheco-Alvarez and Paola de los Heros - t …more
David Komander, who undertook his PhD research with Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten, has been appointed to a Group Leader position at LMB. During his time in Dundee (2002-2005), David undertook elegant structural analysis of the PDK1 kinase that rev …more
Sonja, who was John Rouse's first PhD student, has been awarded a prestigious Ernst Schering Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge UK on DNA damage signalling responses. These …more
Following the recent recruitment of Hosea Handoyo from Indonesia and Doren Rosenweig from Israel, the number of different nationalities currently working in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has risen to 27. …more