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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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Paul Crocker is stepping down as Head of Cell Signalling and Immunology (CSI) after 5 years in the position.
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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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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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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.
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Professor Alessio Ciulli is recognised as one of a handful of key players world-wide in opening up and pushing forward this exciting field of research and development.
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Dr Robyn Hickerson and her team won the Research Staff Award at Venture 2019 competition.
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A University of Dundee scientist has been named as the inaugural winner of a new award recognising the UK’s best young researchers in the field of parasitology
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Researchers from the Schools of Life Sciences and Medicine have been awarded a £275,000 grant from Diabetes UK.