School of Life Sciences response to 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.
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.
None of this essential work could take place without our support staff who maintain the day-to-day activity in our research complex that is allowed to continue at this time.
You can support the research taking place into coronavirus at the University of Dundee by supporting the Coronavirus Research Fundraising Campaign.

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Researchers from the Universities of Dundee and Oxford have made a discovery that helps explain why variations in the virus that causes Covid-19 spread so rapidly.

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Seven new papers have been published this month in The Biochemical Journal, representing a major collaboration between multiple groups at the Francis Crick Institute in London, University College London and The University of Dundee.

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The MRC PPU’s collaboration with the MRC CVR in Glasgow to generate a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus Toolkit has yielded its second important publication.

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An international consortium, led by scientists in Scotland, have devised a Coronavirus Toolkit which gives researchers from across the world open access to a wide range of materials to further Covid-19 research.
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Michele Tinti, a postdoctoral researcher in Mike Ferguson’s lab, has competed on the international stage to search for a stable mRNA sequence in order to create a stable COVID-19 vaccine.

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This is the final part of our Covid Stories series
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Since the end of June, our researchers have been returning to the School of Life Sciences to restart their lab-based research. This work encompasses a diverse range of topics from microbiology to gene regulation and plant sciences to drug discovery.

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The Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh are playing key roles in a €77.7 million pan-European consortium seeking to accelerate the development of therapies for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.
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During lockdown, the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee was not closed.

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A University of Dundee campaign to fund research into coronaviruses has received a significant donation from a Scottish charitable trust.