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EMBO Young Investigator, John Rouse wins the Colworth Medal
Heidelberg, March 08, 2007
Dr John Rouse, a Principal Investigator from the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has been awarded the 2008 Colworth Medal of the Biochemical Society. The prestigious Colworth Medal is awarded annually for outstanding research by a biochemist of any nationality who has carried out the majority of his/her work in the United Kingdom.
Commenting on the award Dr Rouse said:
 It is a great honour to receive the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, especially given the long list of distinguished past recipients, seven of whom are also based in Dundee, two of them in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit.
This is a testament to the quality of biochemical research going on here. 
John Rouse received a 1st class honours degree in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin in 1993 and his PhD in the MRC-PPU in 1996 under the supervision of Sir Philip Cohen. During this time he discovered the p38a MAP kinase which plays a key role in mediating intracellular responses to cellular stresses and infection by pathogens. The paper describing this discovery (Cell (1994) 78:1027-1037) has subsequently been cited over 1000 times. John then spent 6 years at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge UK working with Steve Jackson. It was here that he first became interested in understanding how cells respond to DNA damage.
He returned to Dundee in November 2002 to set up his own laboratory in the MRC-PPU, his first publication as an independent investigator being a single authored paper in the EMBO Journal (EMBO J (2004) 23:1188-1197). It has been quite a year for John who received an EMBO Young Investigator Award in 2006.
Dr Rouse will receive an honorarium of £2,000 and an invitation to present two lectures, one at a Biochemical Society meeting and another at the Unilever research laboratory.
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