Many congratulations to Adrian Saurin who has been awarded an 8-year Discovery Award of £3,800,000 from Wellcome, in collaboration with the groups of Tony Ly (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) and Andrea Musacchio (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany) to study ‘Kinase-phosphatase cooperativity on individual molecules during the cell cycle’.