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Breakthrough research at the University of Dundee may lead to treatments that make two deadly parasitic infections a thing of the past.
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The Royal Society’s first open access title, Open Biology, has reached its 10th Anniversary.
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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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The career of a University of Dundee researcher has been recognised with a top honour from the Microbiology Society.
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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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Dr Graham Christie has been appointed as Academic Regional Lead (ARL) for South East Asia (ASEAN).
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Three PhD students from the MRC PPU have successfully made It through to the final round of the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES).
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Aanchal Udaynath Pareri’s decision to give up her job and move 5,000 miles to study would have been life-changing at any time, but doing so at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic made the switch even more momentous.
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University of Dundee researchers have been named “six of the best” in a new list of the world’s most influential academics.
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Scientists at the University of Dundee and Harvard Medical School have identified the key targets of an enzyme that play a critical role in protecting the brain against the development of Parkinson’s disease.
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PhD Student Seraina Blümli and colleagues from the Owen-Hughes lab show the ARID1A subunit of the BAF chromatin remodelling complex organised nucleosomes flanking pluripotency transcription factors and association of the coactivator EP300.
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The annual third year PhD poster session took place last week on-line, with excellent entries from 21 students across the School.
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Dr Christina Schilde has been appointed as a lecturer as part of the D’Arcy Thompson Unit.
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Joana Faria, a postdoctoral researcher in David Horn’s Lab (BCDD-WCAIR) who is moving to establish her own group at the University of York, has been awarded the Wellcome-Beit Prize.
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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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An industry-wide consortium, led by producer organisation G’s Growers and supported by the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee and James Hutton Limited, has won a UKRI-BBSRC collaborative training partnership award.
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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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Collaborative research between the Universities of Dundee and Cambridge has uncovered how ‘assassin’ immune cells are able keep on killing as they hunt down cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons.
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The new academic year 2021/22 has started and the School has welcomed the new intake of Honours project students.
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A University of Dundee-led programme that will train the next generation of barley researchers has received a multi-million pound investment.