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

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

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, of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit, has rounded off an extraordinary year by winning the sixth high profile award of his career and the fourth this year.

Dario secured a highly prestigious Philip Lev …more

Philip Cohen has been awarded the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in Metabolic Research for his work on diabetes.

The award recognises his leading role in identifying how insulin accelerates the conversion o …more

A paper published by Philip Cohen and his colleagues in the October 2000 issue of the Biochemical Journal (Davies et al, (2000) Biochem, J., 307, 95-105) is featured as a 'Hot Paper' in the 2 September 2002 issue of The Scientist magazine (Volume 16, …more

It was a beautiful night on 12 August 2002, when six fearless volunteers swam from Tayport Harbour to Broughty Ferry, to raise funds for Diabetes UK

The swimming team all have a connection with diabetes: Irene Blair has diabetes, Liz Downe …more

The Hike Itself:

• 24th November to 3rd December 2001.

• Participants: 68 from around Scotland plus 2 from Maggie's Centre.

• Distance covered: 140 km over 5 full days & 2 half days (around 20 km/day …more