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When Nicole Hindley steps up to the Caird Hall stage at graduation this Friday, there will undoubtedly be a mixture of emotions. Relief her PhD is secured yes, but also nostalgia, gratitude and pride at completing a generational family circle.
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When it was set up by Professor Ronald Harden in 1972, the University of Dundee’s Centre of Medical Education was the first of its kind in the world. Four decades on and preparations are underway to graduate its 6,000th student.
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A 22-year-old budding researcher, who failed his final year exams in high school, will begin a PhD after summer
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Scientists at the University of Dundee have identified a fractional part of a hormone that could lead to a new drug treatment for early stage dementia
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The University of Dundee’s outstanding success in innovation in the Health and Life Sciences sector received further recognition with wins at two major national awards ceremonies
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A new study that provides the UK’s first comprehensive assessment of cancer during pregnancy can lead to improved treatment, outcomes and experiences of patients and their families, say experts
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A University of Dundee expert, whose pioneering work transformed bowel cancer detection in Scotland, has announced his retirement.
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Elevated levels of air pollution cause more children to be admitted to hospital with respiratory problems, a new study has found.
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More than 100 University of Dundee medical students will graduate early to aid the NHS in the fight against coronavirus.
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The University of Dundee’s Professor Jill Belch has helped mobilise a Perthshire community in the fight against coronavirus
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Four University of Dundee academics who are helping transform lives with their work on major diseases have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
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Cigarette smokers who switch to nicotine containing vaporisers could significantly improve their vascular health, a major University of Dundee study has concluded.
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While decades of research have resulted in small but significant breakthroughs, solving the Parkinson’s puzzle will require many more years of dedication from some of the most inquisitive minds in science
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The University of Dundee is to lead new research into a ‘forgotten cancer’ related to lifestyle and deprivation which Scots are more likely to be diagnosed with than almost any other group in the world.
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A new way of detecting liver disease decades before it can become fatal has been developed by a team of scientists at the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside
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Retinal scans studied by advanced artificial intelligence could warn people living with diabetes if they are at risk of heart failure
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When working as a senior NHS registrar in the late 1980s Professor Bob Steele was struck by how many of the patients with bowel cancer died. Then he moved to Nottingham, where trials of bowel cancer screening were happening.
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The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee
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Football manager Craig Levein has become the 250,000th volunteer to join a Scotland-wide effort to help shape the medicines of the future
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Drugs traditionally used to treat blood pressure and heart disease are to be given to lung disease patients to see if they can be beneficial, in a trial involving the Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee