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Dundee in UK project to upgrade Large Hadron Collider
The University of Dundee is one of nine UK research organisations which have embarked on a £26million project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva
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A new edition of one of the most influential Scottish novels of all time will be launched when the Dundee Gothic Group, on behalf of the University of Dundee, hosts a 250th birthday party for its author later this week

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Budding entrepreneurs at the University of Dundee can brush up on their business knowledge with help from a city dentist.

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An artist whose performative work captivated visitors to the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery last year has been named as the winner of one of the world’s most prestigious drawing prizes.

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A team at the University of Dundee has identified how random genetic decisions allow parasites to survive in their human and animal hosts
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The University of Dundee will resume accepting body donations for the purposes of anatomical teaching, research and training, ten months after the programme was put on hold.

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The University of Dundee has received a seven-figure funding boost as part of a multi-million pound investment in research organisations across the UK.

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Researchers leading a trial of a Covid-19 vaccine have thanked the people of Tayside and Fife for their overwhelming response to a call for volunteers.

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Vacuum cleaners that unblock brain vessels, super normal design for extraordinary bodies, and the ways in which our medical data can aid the COVID-19 fight are just some of the topics to be explored at the University of Dundee next week.

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Even a global pandemic has not proven formidable enough to prevent one-woman tablet-making machine Fiona Edwards from raising thousands of pounds for research at the University of Dundee.
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Professor Geoff Codd FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology in the School of Life Sciences, has been made an MBE in the New Year Honours list, for 'services to Water Quality'.
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A University of Dundee research institute that promotes global development through good water governance has had its prestigious UNESCO designation renewed for another six years.
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An innovative Tayside scheme to enhance the early detection of bowel cancer has received a prestigious global healthcare award.
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Researchers from the University of Dundee have identified a new mechanism that enables an aggressive form of breast cancer to survive and grow, a vital step towards developing life-saving treatments for the disease.

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A research team co-led by the University of Dundee’s Dr Daniel Morales have shown that the most commonly used hypertension drugs do not increase the risks of COVID-19 for patients.

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The University of Dundee has welcomed the signing of the Tay Cities Deal, which will boost efforts to capitalise on our world-class strengths in biomedicine and forensic science, creating hundreds of new jobs and attracting further investment.

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One of Britain’s most exciting contemporary artists will give the annual Christmas lecture hosted by the University of Dundee

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A charity that has supported some of Dundee’s most vulnerable people throughout lockdown is to benefit from one of the city’s most popular Christmas events.

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Two projects led by University of Dundee researchers have been awarded millions in funding to help develop their pioneering frontier research in life sciences.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has written to Nursing students at the University of Dundee to praise their hard work and dedication at the most testing time in the history of the NHS.

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Local families are invited on a magical winter journey when a fairy door trail at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden launches this week.