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A University of Dundee spinout has announced a multi-million pound deal to develop first-in-class therapeutics that restore the body's natural disease suppression processes.
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A University of Dundee spinout has announced a multi-million pound deal to develop first-in-class therapeutics that restore the body's natural disease suppression processes.
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The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit has announced a renewed partnership with Takeda, and the University of Cambridge to continue their work to discover new therapeutic treatments for dementia
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A team at the University of Dundee and University of York has determined how a highly selective protein bridge allows cells to express a single gene from a large gene family.
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Professor Mike Bodkin has joined the School of Life Sciences to head up computational drug discovery within the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU).
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New collaborative research led by the recently appointed University of Dundee Professor Marcus Lee.
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The Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) is delighted to announce that Professor Ian Gilbert has been appointed to be the Head of the Drug Discovery Unit
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UK Biobank recently announced the appointment of Professor Sir Michael Ferguson to its Board.
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Professor Paul Wyatt, Head of the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), Director of the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research is leaving the University to take up a new role at Sitala Bio Ltd.
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Amphista Therapeutics, the spin out company from the lab of Professor Alessio Ciulli, was awarded the ‘Financing Deal of the Year’ award 2021 at the Scrip Awards last month. This was in recognition of their $53M Series B funding.
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Dr Susan Wyllie, Head of the Mode of Action group within WCAIR and Principal Investigator in the School of Life Sciences, underwent a successful tenure review recently.
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Recently published papers from the Ferguson lab describe the presence of a fucosyltransferase in the mitochondria of two protozoan parasites
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Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are enzymes that transfer sugars from donor to an acceptor molecule. There are dozens of GT gene families, classified by sequence, sequence motifs and enzymatic function.
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Joana Faria, a postdoctoral researcher in David Horn’s Lab (BCDD-WCAIR) has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society.
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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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Dr Manu De Rycker has become an Independent Investigator and has been awarded a New Investigator Research Grant of over £700k from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to study Trypanosoma cruzi parasite heterogeneity and persister parasites.
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The o2h human health EIS Fund has announced its intention to lead an investment into In4Derm.
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Joana Faria has been awarded a SULSA Early Career Research Prize for Development and Regulation.
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The finalists for Converge 2020, Scotland’s leading academic company creation programme, have been announced with representation from the School included on the list with Dr Robyn Hickerson, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Ten Bio.
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Researchers in the School have discovered a new neurodevelopmental disease caused by genetic mutations and helped explain why patients with these mutations suffer this condition.
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Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma and Exscientia announce that a phase I clinical study of DSP-1181, that was created using Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been initiated in Japan for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder as an initial indication.