Research stories from Life Sciences

Research stories from the School of Life Sciences

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New treatments for neglected diseases

More than half of the world’s population is at risk from infectious parasitic diseases such as malaria, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, cryptosporidiosis, and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Our scientists are developing new treatment therapies that tackle these issues head on.
New treatments for neglected diseases

Trypanosoma cruzi assay – cellular image credit: John Thomas / Manu De Rycker.

Healthy Ageing by Tackling Neurodegeneration

Parkinson's is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world, for which there is no cure. Our researchers are making significant advances in its understanding.
Healthy Ageing by Tackling Neurodegeneration

Innovations in Plant Sciences

Our plant scientists research the genetic make-up, or genome, of plants to identify the genes that are important to key traits like grain yield, disease resistance, or industrial properties, so that the ideal version of these genes can be used in crop breeding programmes.
Innovations in Plant Sciences

Drugging the undruggable

Dundee is front and centre of a revolution in drug design. Targeted protein degradation is an entirely novel approach that provides hope of treating diseases previously thought to be undruggable.
Drugging the undruggable

Covid-19

Our School is home to world-leading life science experts and many of them are now contributing towards the world effort to understand and combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Find out about our response to Covid-19