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.
The Anniversary prize is awarded to scientists under the age of 40 for outstanding achievement in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The prizes are provided by the pharmaceutical companies Boehringer Mannheim GmbH and Eppendorft Geratebau-Netheler & Hinz GmbH.
This is the seventh important award for Dario over the past four years. In 2002 he was awarded, the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the"missing link" in insulin signal transduction, The Pfizer Academic Award for his groundbreaking work on diabetes and the Young Investigator G.B. Morgagni Prize 2002 for outstanding achievements in the field of metabolism. He was also elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dario won the Eppendorf Young European scientist of the year in 2000 and the Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society in 1999 for young scientists under the age of 36.
The Anniversary prize is awarded to scientists under the age of 40 for outstanding achievement in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The prizes are provided by the pharmaceutical companies Boehringer Mannheim GmbH and Eppendorft Geratebau-Netheler & Hinz GmbH.
This is the seventh important award for Dario over the past four years. In 2002 he was awarded, the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Makdougall Brisbane prize for his discovery and characterisation of PDK1, the"missing link" in insulin signal transduction, The Pfizer Academic Award for his groundbreaking work on diabetes and the Young Investigator G.B. Morgagni Prize 2002 for outstanding achievements in the field of metabolism. He was also elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Dario won the Eppendorf Young European scientist of the year in 2000 and the Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society in 1999 for young scientists under the age of 36.