SCILLS - The Scottish Institute for Cell Signalling

SCILLS is dedicated to the study of how biological processes are controlled and how they become deregulated in disease. The Protein Ubiquitination Unit is the Institute's first research Division. Its major aims are to advance understanding of the role of protein ubiquitination and related modifications in cell regulation and human disease, to facilitate the development of drugs to treat diseases caused by abnormalities in this process, to generate reagents and improve technologies on which more rapid progress in this area depends, and to train the next generation of scientists who will advance the subject.

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RON HAY IS MADE A MEMBER OF EMBO

Professor Ron Hay, an Honorary Programme Leader in the Protein Ubiquitylation Unit within SCILLS, has been elected a member the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

Fifty members of EMBO have received the Nobel Prize, and Ron is one of a select group of 66 scientists from all over Europe to be elected to membership in 2009. EMBO membership now comprises 1,420 of the world’s foremost molecular biologists, and members contribute scientific expertise to the various programmes coordinated by the organisation.

Ron Hay played a key role in the discovery and characterisation of SUMOylation in which proteins are conjugated to SUMO, a ubiquitin-like modifier and has made many important contribution to this area over the years.

Ron Hay’s reaction to the announcement was, “It is a great honour to be elected to EMBO and extremely gratifying to have the research carried out in my laboratory recognized in this fashion.”

SCILLS is embedded within the College of Life Sciences at Dundee. Ron's election means that, remarkably, 15 scientists within the College of Life Sciences complex have now been elected to EMBO.

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