On 17 November at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, Sir Philip Cohen was made an Honorary Member of the British Biochemical Society together with Nobel Laureate Sidney Brenner and Sir Alec Jeffreys, all of whom received speciall …more

Dr Jean Harthill, a postdoctoral researcher in Carol Mackintosh's lab was one of two finalist in the "sunshine" category of the Women Who Mean Business Awards, which were presented at a dinner at the Invercarse Hotel, Dundee on 14 November. The Women …more

Tricia Cohen, Group Leader in the MRC-PPU, won the Rui Handicap Golf Tournament, a 36 hole event played on the Isla Canela and Benamore courses in southern Spain over 5 and 6 November 2003. Tricia was six shots clear of the lady competitor in second  …more

Sonja Flott joined the Unit in October 2003, having been awarded a prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Predoctoral Fellowship. The Predoctoral Fellowship scheme is a £1 million initiative from the MRC launched in October 2000 introducing salar …more

Dario Alessi and Grahame Hardie combined their scientific expertise to crack an important scientific problem.

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Dario Alessi from the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been awarded the Federation of Biochemical Societies' Anniversary Prize which he received at the FEBS meeting on Signal Transduction in Brussels on 6 July 2003.

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Dr Axel Knebel came second in the Inaugural Gannochy Trust Innovation Award of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which is awarded annually to a young entrepreneur under the age of 45 working in Scotland.

At the awards dinner held at Scone P …more

Tricia Cohen is very pleased to announce that two of her students who started their research together have successfully defended their theses at virtually the same time. Mirela Delibegovic presented a seminar and thesis concerning "In vivo effects of …more

Tricia Cohen has been awarded a grant of £135,435 from January 2003 until December 2005 from Diabetes UK to investigate the roles of the glycogen-targeting subunits of protein phosphatase 1 in the action of insulin and the development of impaired glu …more

Dario Alessi, from the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has been awarded a Pfizer Academic Award - his third award this year.

The Academic Awards are made based on work published in the previous two years that is nove …more