Both Jacqui and Joel were awarded ARC Discovery Grants for 2003-2005. Jacqui’s grant ($300,000) will allow her to continue her work aimed at understanding the role of specific transcription factors in the control of gene expression, and to begin to design specific reagents that may interfere with aberrent expression of certain genes. Joel’s grant will allow us to probe the structure and function of a novel protein involved in the regulation of globin production. This grant ($600,000) included a prestigious ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship for David Gell (who has been working in the Mackay lab on a Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellowship for two years). If you are interested in working in our labs on this or another project, contact Jacqui or Joel.