Phillip (Phill) Thomas Hawkins FRS[1] (born 5 October 1958) is a molecular biologist, senior group leader at the Babraham Institute.
Phill Hawkins has contributed much to the understanding of inositol lipids functions in eukaryotic cells.
[2] They identified and isolated the GPCR-activated Type 1B PI3K (PI3KΥ) and, in a sustained body of work, defined its structure, explained its complex pattern of regulation by GβΥ and Ras, and proved its role in inflammatory events in vivo.
[3] They - in parallel with Dario Alessi - identified phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 as the PtdIns(3,4,5)P3-activated link between PI3K-1 activation and protein kinase B activation, a key pathway through which PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 formation regulates cell proliferation and survival.
& F. Research Ltd, he joined the Molecular Neurobiology unit of the MRC in Cambridge (UK).