Matter of principal

26 March 2009

Professor Margaret (‘Scottie’) Robinson has had her Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship renewed. Her research, carried out at the University of Cambridge, explores how proteins get to the right part of the cell. She will use this funding to study further the ‘adaptors’ (including AP-1 and AP- 2) that recognise sorting signals on proteins. These signals indicate which part of the cell the proteins are destined for.

This latest award marks some two decades of Trust support for Professor Robinson. She held a Senior Research Fellowship from 1989 to 1999, and was awarded her first Principal Research Fellowship in 1999. During this time, Professor Robinson and her lab members have been highly involved in public engagement - something set to continue.

Their engagement activities have included working closely with primary and secondary schools to provide hands-on experience in cell biology, and taking part in a schools’ roadshow as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.