Yvonne Woods and Calum Sutherland have announced their engagement. Yvonne obtained her PhD in Philip's lab from 1997-2001 and Calum from 1991-1994. …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

Iain Inverarity, a 3rd year PhD student jointly supervised by Alison Hulme, Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh and Philip Cohen in the Life Sciences Unit, University of Dundee, won first prize of £200 for the best lecture given at the 1 …more

The Biochemical Journal is celebrating its centenary in 2006 and the first event to mark this milestone was a reception at the British Library in London. Philip Cohen's first official duty as the President of the Biochemical Society was to present Ly …more

James Woodgett, who received his PhD in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit in 1984 and is currently a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto is to become the Research Director of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Also based i …more

All the Programme Leaders in the MRC Unit and four other Research Groups in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee are involved in one of the largest research collaborations ever undertaken between the pharmaceutical industry and an  …more

The MRC PPU's collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry has won a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education.

The award recognises the work of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT) - a unique consortium br …more

Many cancers possess an elevated activity of the protein kinases PKB/Akt and S6K, which is believed to drive the proliferation, growth and survival of these cells. Pharmaceutical companies are devoting a considerable effort to develop drugs that woul …more

There was much excitement in 2001 when elegant clinical investigations undertaken by Richard Lifton's research group at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven reported that the WNK1 and WNK4 protein kinases, were mutated in patients that s …more

David Komander, a former PhD student with Dario Alessi and Daan van Aalten, has been awarded the Karl-Lohmann Prize of the Gesellschaft fuer Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM, German Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). This bi-ann …more