Susan Taylor from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Diego, USA,

presented the Biochemical Society Centenary Award Lecture at the College of Life Sciences on Monday, 14 July 2014.

Susan Taylor is a pioneer in the protein kinase research field and elected to deliver her Biochemical Society Centenary Award Lecture for her textbook work on defining the structure and mechanism by which the cyclic AMP dependent protein kinase PKA is regulated and functions in Dundee.

The body of work Susan Taylor has undertaken on the PKA system has made a tremendous contribution to the foundations of our current understanding of how protein kinases are regulated and function, and how disease-causing mutations impact on enzyme catalytic properties and hence disease. The knowledge derived from Susan Taylor's work has contributed to the development of exquisitely specific and potent kinase inhibitors which over 20 have now been clinically approved drugs that are benefiting an ever increasing number of patients.

Susan's talk was entitled 'PKA: Dynamic Assembly of Alloseteric Macromolecular Signaling Complexes"

Professor Ron Laskey FRS CBE, President of the Biochemical Society, presented Susan with her award.