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Best of luck today to Adam Walker, defending his MRes research 'Exploring Diverse Synthetic Strategies for SDE2 Ubiquitin-Like Domain Probe Development: A Multi-Modal Approach'

Meet the New Innovators Shaping the Future To mark Scotland’s national Innovation Week 2025, we spoke to Ricardo Monero Ballesteros and Peter Ibrahim from the School of Life Sciences who started their innovation journey during their PhD studie...

Meet the New Innovators Shaping the Future www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/meet...

Professor Ian Ganley, 2025 winner of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) Hooke Medal

Our latest interview is with 2025 @bscb-official.bsky.social Hooke Medal winner Ian Ganley of the University of Dundee @mrcppu.bsky.social‬‬. We spoke with Ian about his career journey, his approach to mentorship and his pet snowflake moray, Eel Armstrong. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Interview with the 2025 Hooke Medal winner Ian Ganley ABSTRACT. Ian Ganley is the Professor of Cellular Homeostasis in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit at the University of Dundee (UK). Ian obtained his undergraduate and Master's d...

Interview with the 2025 Hooke Medal winner Ian Ganley url: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

Join us! Research Technician position available with Dario Alessi www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

RSE awards over £724K to boost Scotland’s vibrant research sector We are pleased to announce that 72 exceptional research projects were selected at the spring 2025 Research Awards open call.

MRC PPU group leader Ian Ganley among those recognised by @royalsoced.bsky.social for his project 'Establishing autophagy models of #Parkinsons Disease to advance new therapeutic approaches': "RSE awards over £724K to boost Scotland’s vibrant research sector" rse.org.uk/rse-awards-o...

Ian Ganley Featured on North of Scotland Parkinson’s Podcast www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/ian-gan...

Wishing Professor Sir Philip Cohen a Very Happy 80th Birthday

How retired Fife farmer came to terms with Parkinson's disease diagnosis Rob Whiteford was 66 years old when he was diagnosed with the disease.

How retired Fife farmer came to terms with #Parkinsons diagnosis www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

Discovery that the NRBP1 pseudo-kinase activates the WNK Pathway www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/discove...

Best of luck today to Daniel Saarela of the Alessi lab, defending his PhD thesis 'Lysosome isolation for studying neurodegenerative diseases: story of LRRK2 and CLN3' #Dundee #StudentLife #PhDLife

Enzyme Inhibition Restores Neuron Pathways in a Parkinson's Mouse Model Inhibition of LKKR2 may rescue neurons that are dying due to a type of Parkinson’s disease that is caused by a single genetic mutation.

Enzyme Inhibition Restores Neuron Pathways in a Parkinson’s Mouse Model www.genengnews.com/topics/drug-... @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org #MJFF

Delighted to announce Prof Miratul Muqit as Centre Director of our groundbreaking new Parkinson's Research Centre, a partnership with @parkinsons.org.uk!🎉👏

Prof Muqit is a world leader in Parkinson’s research, having made major contributions to understanding genetic risk👉 buff.ly/etNUa4b

Join an exciting and ambitious project involving kinome-wide #CRISPR screening in iPSC-derived motor neurons co-cultured with microglia to uncover novel drug targets for C9ORF72 motor neuron disease #neurodegeneration #MND #ALS #CRISPR #neuron #microglia www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/careers/recr...

MRC PPU Alumnus Honoured with Prestigious Medical Science Award | MRC PPU Dr Thomas McWilliams, a former postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Professors Ian Ganley and Miratul Muqit, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Young Scientist Anders Jahre Award for Medical R...

MRC PPU Alumnus Honoured with Prestigious Medical Science Award www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/mrc-ppu...

Renowned Filmmakers Herne Katha Showcase Sapkota Lab’s Research to Global Nepali Audience | MRC PPU The Herne Katha team, who are renowned filmmakers from Nepal, visited Professor Gopal Sapkota’s laboratory at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit within the School of Life Sciences...

Renowned Filmmakers Herne Katha Showcase Sapkota Lab’s Research to Global Nepali Audience www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/renowne...

Scotland’s First CyTOF XT Arrives at the University of Dundee to Power Single-Cell Research Funded through a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to Dr Ralitsa Madsen, the CyTOF XT will be the first of its kind available to all researchers across Scotland.

Scotland’s First CyTOF XT Arrives at the University of Dundee to Power Single-Cell Research www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/scot...

Dundee researchers to receive International translational award to develop new medicines for Parkinson’s disease | MRC PPU A highly ambitious project led by Miratul Muqit and scientists at the School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine at the University of Dundee has been selected for the highly prestigious 2025 SPARK...

Dundee researchers to receive International translational award to develop new medicines for Parkinson’s disease www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/dundee-...

Congratulations to Ian Ganley from MRC PPU, University of Dundee, the very deserving winner of the 2025 Hooke Medal

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Researchers and people with #Parkinsons connect through talks, tours and poetry www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/researc...

University of Dundee Appoints Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to Honorary Professorship in the School of Life Sciences | MRC PPU The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to an Honorary Professorship. A world-renowned biochemist and leader i...

University of Dundee Appoints Professor John D. Scott, FRS, to Honorary Professorship in the School of Life Sciences www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/univers... #Dundee

Latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo installed at MRC PPU | MRC PPU We are thrilled to announce that the latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo is being installed at the MRC PPU, UoD SLS. This platform enables us to perform miniaturized end-to-end sample preparation wor...

We are thrilled to announce that the latest generation of cellenONE X1Neo is being installed here at the MRC PPU www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/latest-... @ukdri.ac.uk

Arpan Mehta awarded the 51st Croom Medal and Lectureship www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/arpan-m... @rcpedin.bsky.social

Further £30 million, five-year funding boost from Medical Research Council | MRC PPU The government’s Science and Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, has announced a further five-year funding boost from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to continue our vital work.

We are enormously grateful to the Medical Research Council (MRC)/UKRI for their generous long-term support - 34 years and counting - for our research Unit at the University of Dundee www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk/news/further... @dundee.ac.uk @ukri.org #Dundee