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 novel and leading in its field. Dario is one of only four receipients of a £12,000 award this year, for his groundbreaking work in the fight against diabetes and leads a research team in biochemical studies of insulin-regulated signal transduction pathways.
Dario was most recently awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the "missing link" in insulin signal transduction, and the Young Investigator G.B. Morgagni Prize 2002 for outstanding achievements in the field of metabolism.
The Academic Awards are made based on work published in the previous two years that is novel and leading in its field. Dario is one of only four receipients of a £12,000 award this year, for his groundbreaking work in the fight against diabetes and leads a research team in biochemical studies of insulin-regulated signal transduction pathways.
Dario was most recently awarded Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the "missing link" in insulin signal transduction, and the Young Investigator G.B. Morgagni Prize 2002 for outstanding achievements in the field of metabolism.