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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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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 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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The new academic year 2021/22 has started and the School has welcomed the new intake of Honours project students.
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Recently published papers from the Ferguson lab describe the presence of a fucosyltransferase in the mitochondria of two protozoan parasites
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Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are enzymes that transfer sugars from donor to an acceptor molecule. There are dozens of GT gene families, classified by sequence, sequence motifs and enzymatic function.
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The twelve major BSc Honours degree programmes offered by the University of Dundee in Biological and Biomedical Sciences have been awarded accreditation by the Royal Society of Biology for a further five years.
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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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Joana Faria, a postdoctoral researcher in David Horn’s Lab (BCDD-WCAIR) has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society.
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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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Almost half a million rapid diagnostic tests developed from research at the University of Dundee will be donated with the aim of helping eliminate the disease known as African sleeping sickness
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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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In recent weeks staff who teach on Biological and Biomedical Sciences programmes have been recognised in the DUSA Student-led teaching awards and the BBSE awards.
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Dr Stephen Land has been named as one of this year’s winners of the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching.
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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.