Staff

Name	Affiliation	Research Interests
Director Professor Dario Alessi	MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences	Protein Phosphorylation Insulin Signal Transduction Transgenic models of insulin resistance
Deputy Director Dr Calum Sutherland	Biomedical Research Institute	Insulin Regulation of Gene Transcription Molecular links between obesity and diabetes Insulin action in the brain
Professor Michael Ashford	Biomedical Research Institute	Hypothalamic control of body weight Molecular links between obesity and diabetes Leptin action
Professor Patricia T.W. Cohen Professor of Molecular Biology	MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences	Relationship of protein serine/threonine dephosphorylation to insulin action and diabetes
Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit	College of Life Sciences	Protein Phosphorylation and disease Drug Discovery
Professor Helen Colhoun	Biomedical Research Institute Division of Clinical & Population Sciences & Education	Epidemiology, including genetic epidemiology of complications of type 1 or type 2 diabetes Clinical trials of prevention of diabetic complications Biomarkers of complications of diabetes
Dr Alex Doney Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer	NHS Tayside
Professor C Peter Downes OBE Principal	College of Life Sciences	Inositol lipd signals in health and disease PI3-kinase dependent signalling Molecular Basis of insulin action
Dr Josie Evans Lecturer in Epidemiology	Division of Clinical & Population Sciences & Education	Epidemiology of Diabetes
Dr Stephen Greene Reader	Maternal and Child Health Sciences	Diabetes of the Young Infant and Childhood Origins of Adult Health
Professor D. Grahame Hardie Professor of Cellular Signalling and Head of Division	Division of Molecular Physiology	Structure and regulation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) Signalling pathways involved in energy balance and the response to exercise AMPK activators as treatment for Type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cancer
Dr Sheriar Hormuzdi RCUK Research Fellow	Centre for Neuroscience	Connexins and B-Cell Function
Dr Hari S. Hundal Reader	Division of Molecular Physiology College of Life Sciences	Muscle Physiology Insulin regulation of muscle metabolism Mechanisms of insulin resistance
Professor Chim Lang	Centre for Cardiovascular & Lung Biology
Professor Graham Leese Consultant, NHS Tayside and Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology	Biomedical Research Institute	Clinical aspects of Diabetes Retinopathy Diabetic foot disease Clinical utility of exercise in diabetes Thyroid and Endocrine epidemiology Clinical aspects of genetics and diabetes Previous research into physiology of human muscle glycogen metabolism
Professor Carol MacKintosh Programme leader	MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit College of Life Sciences	14-3-3 proteins as mediators of cellular responses to insulin and growth factors
Professor Andrew Morris MB ChB, MSc, MD, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glas), FRSE, FMedSci Professor of Medicine Director of the Biomedical Research Institute	Biomedical Research Institute	Andrew Morris is the Professor of Medicine and Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee. He leads a translational research team that uses informatics to study the epidemiological and molecular aetiological basis of diabetes and its complications. He also has a major interest in the use of eHealth to support quality improvement and inter-disciplinary patient care across geographical boundaries. He leads the DARTS research study, has published over 200 original papers and has attracted over £20million in peer reviewed grant funding. He is the principal investigator on many clinical studies of new therapeutics of diabetes as well as genetics of diabetes, including the Wellcome Trust United Kingdom Case Control Collection for Type 2 Diabetes that has recruited 20,000 individuals and Generation Scotland, a study of the genetic health in 50,000 Scots. He was awarded the RD Lawrence Award by Diabetes UK in 2003, the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was appointed by the Minister for Health and Community Care to be Lead Clinician for diabetes in Scotland (2002-2006) and led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care. He is a Governor of the Health Foundation and also chairs the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration Steering Group a £50million collaboration between all Medical Schools in Scotland, NHS Scotland and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Dr Michael Murphy	Centre for Neuroscience
Professor Colin Palmer	Biomedical Research Institute	PPAR transcription factors Adipocyte differentiation Genetic epidemiology
Dr Ewan Pearson Clinical Senior Lecturer & Honorary Consultant, NHS Tayside	Biomedical Research Institute	Monogenetic Diabetes
Dr Graham Rena CRF Fellow and Lecturer	Centre for Neuroscience	Insulin-sensitive FOXO transcription factors
Dr Kei Sakamoto Lecturer	MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit	Insulin and exercise signal transduction transgenic models of insulin resistance
Professor Roland Wolf OBE Director	Biomedical Research Institute	Diabetes/drug development, Pharmacogenetics/hepatology

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