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Our researchers are finding new ways to approach the complex puzzle that is Parkinson’s disease, offering hope of breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment
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Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a discovery they believe has the potential to put the brakes on the ‘runaway train’ that is Parkinson’s disease.
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Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world and at present, there is no cure
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Hannah Tovell a PhD student in Dario Alessi lab working with Claire Crafter (AstraZeneca) and Alessio Ciulli and Andrea Testa in his lab have elaborated a compound termed SGK3-PROTAC1 that induces selective degradation of SGK3 protein kinase.
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The Dundee Parkinson’s Campaign is undoubtedly ambitious, but the University has never shied away from a challenge, particularly when it comes to world-leading research
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Ian Kelsall and Jiazhen Zhang, two postdoc’s in Philip Cohen’s lab, have discovered the function of HOIL-1.
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The University of Dundee will share in a new €36.5million, European-wide grant for the European Lead Factory, a public-private partnership to transform drug targets into new medicines.
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John Rouse, together with researchers Detlev Schindler at the University of Wuerzburg, and Minoru Takata at the University of Kyoto, have won the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund 2017 Discovery Award.
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Scientists at the School have identified the structure of a key enzyme that protects the brain against Parkinson’s disease.
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Life Sciences researcher Professor Karim Labib has been awarded £2million to explore the role that one of the most fundamental processes in cell biology plays in cancer.
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Dr Miratul Muqit has been awarded the prestigious Francis Crick Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society in recognition of discoveries that have led to better understanding of the causes of Parkinson’s disease.
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Research by Rosalia Fernandez-Alonso, a post-doctoral investigator in Dr. Greg Findlay’s lab in the MRC-PPU, has been published in and featured on the cover of the July edition of the journal EMBO Reports.