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Tony Ly, who is a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society-funded Sir Henry Dale Fellow has joined the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression as a Principal Investigator.
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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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Some of the University of Dundee’s best business brains have been honoured as the winners of an enterprise skills competition were announced.
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The annual third year PhD poster session took place this week on-line.
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Earlier this month, Julia Wcislo was named runner-up in the Medical Research Council’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award at their virtual award ceremony.
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This is the final part of our Covid Stories series
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Life Science student, Oluwaseyi (Seyi) Jesusanmi, has been named as one of the top undergraduates in the world.
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A University of Dundee graduate has discovered key information that will help scientists better understand the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic
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During the SLS summer school students usually expect to gain wet lab experience and benefit from working alongside PhD students and postdoctoral researchers on the bench.
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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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The results of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2020 were recently announced with continued successes for our Biological and Biomedical Sciences programmes.
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Elena Purlyte, a PhD student in Professor Dario Alessi’s lab in the MRC-PPU, has been issued with a commendation by the University Principal.
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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.
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The University of Dundee has launched a major fundraising campaign to support research into coronaviruses.
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Dr Sarah Coulthurst, deputy head of the Division of Molecular Microbiology, has had her Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship renewed for a further five years.
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In 2020 the research landscape across the world has shifted focus to work together to combat COVID-19. In the School of Life Sciences, many of our staff and students, a group that continues to grow, have joined this collective research effort.
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The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has received €5 million of funding to develop antiviral treatments for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.
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A new toolkit website has been launched to help in the fight against Covid-19.