On Friday March 30th a reception was held in the College of Life Sciences' Garland Cafeteria to mark the departure of two of its longest serving and most loyal support staff. The huge turnout at the reception was a testament to the popularity of thes …more

Kei Sakamoto, a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at Dundee has been selected to receive the New Investigator Award for 2007 from the Endocrinology and Metabolism Section of the American Physiological Society. The prize of US$1 …more

On Friday March 30th Jack McConnell chose the College of Life Sciences at Dundee as the venue to spell out the Labour party's manifesto for science over the next five years, should they form the government after the Scottish Elections on May 3rd. A k …more

The prestigious 2008 Colworth Medal has been awarded to Dr John Rouse, a principal investigator in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee. The medal is sponsored by Unilever and presented by the Biochemical Society. It is sa …more

Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has been awarded the prestigious 2006 Rolf Luft Award, which he received on October 3rd, in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Prize was created in 2000 in honou …more

Andrew MacDonald, who is undertaking post-doctoral research in Simon Arthur's group, has been awarded a Research Council UK (RCUK) grant to set up his own independent laboratory at the University of Leeds in England. RCUK awards are a new initiative  …more

Researchers at the University of Dundee have been shortlisted for three major awards at this year's prestigious Times Higher Awards.

Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, is shor …more

John Rouse, who became a Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the end of 2002, has been selected by the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) as an EMBO Young Investigator - one of only twenty-one young biomedical and  …more

Congratulations to Greg Moorhead who was awarded the C.D. Nelson Award in August 2006 at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists in Boston. This Award recognizes young plant …more

The MRC Group Leaders send off sabbatical visitors Greg Moorhead and Pauline Douglas from the University of Alberta at Calgary, Canada, who have just spent 4 months in the Unit and welcome new sabbatical visitor Randy Brutkiewicz from Indiana Univers …more