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Dundee Group to Tackle Pipeline Reliability and Safety Challenges
A team from the University of Dundee have been awarded two grants totalling almost £300,000 to improve the safety and reliability of ultra-deep water oil and gas extraction.
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£3 million Wellcome Trust grant for Dundee research
The Wellcome Trust has awarded a research grant of over £3million to Professor Angus Lamond at the University of Dundee.
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One-in-six Elderly Demential Patients Receiving Anti-psychotic Drugs
More than one in six elderly patients across Scotland with dementia are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs known to be of limited benefit and causing significant harm, a major study carried out at the University of Dundee has confirmed.
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Games-Based Learning Research by Scottish Academics to be Published in Renowned Educational Journal
A study by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) and the University of Dundee into the benefits of games-based learning is set to be published in the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).
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DNA "molecular scissors" Discovered By Dundee Scientists
Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered a protein that acts as a "molecular scissors" to repair damaged DNA in our cells, a finding which could have major implications for cancer treatments.
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Researchers Have Eye On New Cornea Treatments
Leading eye research charity, Fight for Sight, has awarded over £157,000 to a joint research project led by the Universities of Dundee and Ulster to develop a treatment for various forms of corneal dystrophy - a group of inherited disorders leading to constant irritation of the surface of the eye and progressive visual impairment.
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Drug Resistance Danger for Sleeping Sickness Treatments
Drugs used to treat the epidemic disease African sleeping sickness must be used prudently to prevent the parasite acquiring resistance to current medicines, a new study at the University of Dundee has shown.
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£4.8million Wellcome-Wolfson Award for New Dundee Centre
The University of Dundee has been given a grant of £4.88million from the Wellcome-Wolfson Capital Awards initiative to help expand its life sciences base.
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The Innovation Portal Spotlight
The Innovation Portal was established to promote and foster productive knowledge transfer between the Universities of Dundee and Abertay, the SCRI (Scottish Crop Research Institute) and Scottish industry. Its aim is to improve the competitiveness of local businesses by bringing together innovative companies with scientists, technologists and engineering experts keen to apply their expertise to the needs of industry.
Small Grants Scheme Success
The Innovation Portal Small Grants Scheme helped Castle Group secure a Knowledge Transfer Partnership worth over £110,000. Read more
Further information on Innovation Portal
Funding Alert
The Wellcome Trust - Investigator Awards: CV Detail Checks
The new Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards scheme will open for main applications on the 1st October 2010.
The Wellcome Trust will carry out a CV details check to assess eligibility and suitability for the first round of their Senior Investigator Award and New Investigator Award schemes. They strongly recommend and advise you to take advantage of the opportunity and to submit your CV details as early as possible (the process could take up to 4 weeks to complete) before 22 October 2010 to ensure you will meet the Round 1 main application deadline of
22 November 2010.
- The proposed title for your Investigator Award application.
- Your education/training history.
- Your employment history (including details of your current post; its tenure, the source of personal salary support; and with whom your contract of employment is held).
- Details of any professional recognition you have received, such as prizes, honours and awards or funding agency advisory and/or journal editorial board membership.
- A full citation, including the title of the paper and the names of all the authors, for up to twenty of your most significant peer-reviewed publications, together with the total number of peer-reviewed publications you have authored/co-authored, excluding abstracts and reviews. Please think carefully about which publications you submit and balance your key publications from the past with those that reflect your more recent productivity.
- Your current research funding including your status (e.g. principal applicant, co-applicant, sponsor) together with details of other significant research funding you have held over the past five years.
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Fact File #5
Medical research
Building on its reputation in medical research Dundee University was chosen to host the hub laboratory for the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration (TMRC), a £50 M project between four of Scotland’s leading universities, the NHS and Scottish Enterprise. The TMRC carries out research into serious medical disorders.
Learn more about Dundee research success stories past and present in the Fact File section.