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

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

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

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

At their meeting on July 26th 2006, The MRC Council gave the highest possible score of 6.0 for the Unit's recent work and future proposals and accepted the recommendations of the Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Board to provide an expande …more

Fabrizio Villa, a joint PhD student between the labs of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi, successfully completed and defended his PhD thesis entitled 'Structural studies of the PTPL1 tyrosine phosphatase and OSR1'.

Following an excellent  …more

PIramed, a biotechnology company co-founded by Peter Parker, who was a postdoc with Philip Cohen in the Unit from 1980-1983, has just signed a development deal with Genentech for US$ 275 million. It has been quite a year for Peter who was elected a F …more

Alberto Vitari, who identified the SPAK/OSR1 protein kinases as the first physiological substrates for WNK1 protein kinase mutated in humans with Gordon's hypertension syndrome has successfully defended in PhD thesis. His examiners were Julian Downwa …more