Dario has also just been awarded the Young Investigator G B Morgagni Prize for 2002, which consists of a silver medal and $8000. This prize is conferred every 2 years for a researcher under 40 years of age for "outstanding achievements in the field o …more

John Rouse, who obtained his PhD with Philip Cohen in 1996, is rejoining the Unit in October 2002 as a Programme Leader. For the past six years John has been a Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Steve Jackson at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridg …more

Dario Alessi, Programme Leader in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the "missing link" in insulin signal transduction.
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Axel Knebel who, until recently, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philip Cohen's group, has set up a new company called Kinasource, which aims to exploit commercially the new method for identifying substrates of protein kinases (termed KESTREL, EMBO Vol  …more

Alfonso Mora, working in the group of Dario Alessi in the Unit, has been awarded a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sport. This Fellowship will fund Alfonso's work for two years to work on conditional PDK1 k …more

For the second consecutive year we have successfully secured one of the new highly prestigious Predoctoral Fellowships offered by the Medical Research Council (MRC). David Komander will join the groups of Daan van Aalten and Dario Alessi in June 2002 …more

Dario Alessi has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. At the age of 34 Dario is one of the youngest scientists to have received this accolade. The Royal Society of Edinburgh is one of the world's oldest scientific societies and wa …more

Dr Hilary Snaith who obtained her PhD with Tricia Cohen in 1996 has been awarded a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to work on mechanisms underlying cellular polarity in fission yeast. …more

Simon Dowler, a student with Dario Alessi, presented a seminar entitled "Cloning and characterisation of novel Pleckstrin homology domain-containing proteins" on 23rd January 2002 and was then examined by Dr. Len Stephens (The Babraham Institute, Cam …more

Local school students were introduced to research in the School of Life Sciences in a series of Royal Society of Edinburgh Start-up Science Masterclasses. In the final class, the students became wonderfully enthusiastic forensic scientists. Displayin …more