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

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

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

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

Jose Bayascas, who is undertaking postdoctoral research in Dario Alessi's Group, has been awarded a Ramon y Cajal grant to set up his own independent laboratory in Spain. Ramon y Cajal awards are a new initiative funded by the Spanish government to r …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

MRC students, postdocs and support staff raised over £500 for Cancer Research UK (CRUK) after taking part in the Dundee half marathon on Sunday 25th June. Chris Hunter, a PhD student in Simon Arthur's Group, came eighth overall with a time of 1:29:55 …more

Dario Alessi, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been selected by the Council of the Royal Society to deliver the Francis Crick Lecture in 2006. The Crick Lecture is given annually in any field of Biological Science and is h …more

Each year the Scotland on Sunday newspaper publishes the Power 100 list, in which a panel of judges assess the relative impact that different individuals are having in Scotland. This year, the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit's Director leaped 64 pla …more