Dario Alessi

Who is Dario Alessi?

Dario Alessi FRSE FRS is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit and Professor of Signal Transduction, at University of Dundee. Dario Alessi’s work focuses on unravelling the roles of poorly characterised components which regulate protein phosphorylation or ubiquitylation that have emerged from the genetic analysis of human disease. The aim of his research is to provide new knowledge to enable researchers to devise improved strategies to better treat disease. Dario Alessi is also the current Director of the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy Unit that is a unique collaboration between University of Dundee and six major pharmaceutical companies that aims to accelerate drug discovery in the areas of protein phosphorylation and ubiquitylation. As of 2013 he has written over 180 peer-reviewed papers and has been cited more than 32,000 times, making him one of most highly cited biochemists in the world.