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The School has welcomed three new group leaders in recent months. They are currently establishing their laboratories across three of our divisions.
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Researchers in the Ciulli group report a first study describing the idea of a macrocyclic PROTAC. The research was published in the prestigious chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie.
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The University of Dundee’s Professor David Horn has received a prestigious award in recognition of his contribution to global efforts to overcome the disease known as African sleeping sickness.
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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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Paul Crocker is stepping down as Head of Cell Signalling and Immunology (CSI) after 5 years in the position.
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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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On October 1st 1969 Philip Cohen became a postdoc in Edmond Fischer’s at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and started his research on protein phosphorylation.
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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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DEBRA is delighted to share that funding for a fourth year of the University of Dundee’s research into novel gene technology for treating Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) has been agreed.
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Two academic entrepreneurs from the division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery have made the final of the Converge Challenge 2019.
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School of Life Sciences researcher Professor David Horn will receive a £2.1 million Investigator Award from Wellcome to decode gene expression mechanisms in trypanosomes, pathogenic protozoa that cause a range of human and animal diseases.
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The quest to develop treatments for Parkinson’s disease is a source of passion for everyone involved with the Dundee Parkinson’s Research Campaign, but for one member of that team the battle is especially personal
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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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Dr Susan Wyllie, Head of the Mode of Action (MoA) group, has been promoted to tenure track Principal Investigator in the School.
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Prof. Grahame Hardie and two of his co-workers, Diana Vara-Ciruelos and Fiona Russell, have published a review in the journal Open Biology.
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The University of Dundee has announced a new partnership with Eisai, one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies.
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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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Around 60 aspiring entrepreneurs from across Scotland’s Universities are now through to the next stage of Scotland’s leading academic enterprise programme.
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An Alessi lab PhD student working closely with the Ciulli lab has published an improved HaloPROTAC method to induce post–translational knockdown of endogenous proteins.