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Philip Cohen has agreed to become the patron of STEM, a local organisation which has the objective of enhancing the interest of Primary and Secondary School children in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. STEM was recently launched at à…more
In June 2004, Mercedes Pozuelo Rubio, postdoctoral researcher with Carol MacKintosh, was awarded a prestigious five year ‘Ramon y Cajal' Fellowship from the Spanish government. Mercedes plans to use her award to establish a research programme i …more
On May 22nd 2004, Philip Cohen received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Linkoping, Sweden, for his contributions to the research in the Life Sciences and the development of Biotechnology in Dundee. Commenting on the a …more
On 20 February 2004, Philip Cohen opened the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Cellular Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UCL. Philip and Tricia are former students of the Department.

The ceremony was attend …more
From 26th - 30th January 2004, the Unit's Director, Philip Cohen, was a guest of The British Council in West and South India, participating in their "Ambassador's Programme". Over the first five days he and Tricia visited The National Chemical Labora …more
The Moffat Charitable Trust recently donated £75,000 to the Unit, to fund a PhD student in Dario Alessi's laboratory, researching an area of diabetes. Abdallah Al-Hakim has been appointed to the studentship. Born in Egypt, Abdallah's family moved to  …more
The image on the 2003 MRC Christmas/New Year card is a painting inspired by the research of our Unit. The artist is Dr Lizzie Burns, who is based in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The picture is entitled "Insulin binding  …more
In November 2003, Gopal Sapkota, a former PhD student with Dario Alessi, was awarded a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellowship by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Gopak was one of 19 recipients of this prestigious award, selected from a pool …more
According to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia (ISI), a study published in 1995 by three of the Unit's PIs (Dario Alessi, Ana Cuenda and Philip Cohen) in collaboration with David Dudley and Alan Saltiel of the Parke-Davis Pharm …more
On 28 November the University of Dundee received The President's Award for 2003 from the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI). This is the SCDI's premier award and was made to the School of Life Sciences and the Medical School in reco …more