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Fergus Preston, who is undertaking a PhD within the DDU and WCAIR, was one of 10 successful applicants for the Scientific Update Young Chemist award.
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Fergus Preston, who is undertaking a PhD within the DDU and WCAIR, was one of 10 successful applicants for the Scientific Update Young Chemist award.
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Researchers from the University of Dundee and Promega Corporation have shown how a “three-headed hydra” significantly improves efficacy in a field of chemical biology that is revolutionising drug discovery.
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Scientists at the University of Dundee have developed a new technology that provides a greater understanding into the biology of ‘undruggable’ diseases.
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University of Dundee research that aims to develop a new male contraceptive has been boosted by major new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The expansion of an exemplary industry-academia collaboration will see the University of Dundee intensify its efforts to develop new medicines that target and destroy key cancer-causing proteins, which have previously been regarded as undruggable
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This year, the School of Life Sciences student representatives have worked hard to increase engagement, boost employability prospects and raise awareness of student wellbeing.
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Researchers at the University of Dundee are among those celebrating being named in HM The Queen’s birthday honours
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Dr Helge Dorfmueller and Dr David Martin from the School have been announced as semi-finalists of Converge 2021.
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The University of Dundee’s Professor Ian Gilbert has been elected to join the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Experts at the University of Dundee have been awarded £2.4 million to identify compounds that could pave the way for a single dose treatment for malaria.
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A new translational research centre will bolster the University of Dundee’s world-leading position in a field that is revolutionising drug discovery, while helping to facilitate the development of high growth companies and create skilled jobs.
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Amphista Therapeutics, a University of Dundee spinout company, has announced a near-£40 million investment that will further its work to develop new drugs for a range of diseases.
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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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Three spinout projects from the University of Dundee with the potential to deliver significant healthcare benefits have received more than £250,000 from Scottish Enterprise to support their development.
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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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The University of Dundee is to play a key role in a new national network bringing together scientific expertise from across the UK to shed new light on the ageing process and help us stay healthy for longer.
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The University of Dundee is to partner with global biopharmaceutical company Almirall to develop new treatments for severe skin diseases with high level of unmet medical need.
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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 University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has received €5 million of funding to develop antiviral treatments for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.