Best of 2025
Student successes, celebrating our staff and innovative research development
Welcome to our wrap-up of 2025 - showcasing all the ways in which we’ve been transforming lives throughout the year.
From entrepreneurial business ideas, exciting projects and, innovations in science and research, we’ve been busy this year!
Enjoy these highlights while we look forward to what next year brings the University of Dundee.
A year in research
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World’s first transatlantic thrombectomy heralds new era of stroke treatment
The University of Dundee has bolstered its position as a global leader in stroke treatment and training by taking part in the world’s first robotic transatlantic thrombectomy
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£17.9m research grant to discover new treatments for fungal diseases
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Breakthrough study has grave consequences for “zombie cells”
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High street eye scan can reveal risk of having a heart attack or stroke
Celebrating our researchers
A spotlight on our students
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Dundee PhD Student honoured with prestigious opportunity at International Conference
Caitlin recently delivered a keynote presentation at the invitation-only Molecular Determinants of Cancer Therapy Resistance conference in Barcelona
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Venture 2025 Winners: Scotland’s New Wave of Entrepreneurs
Student, staff and graduate startups were recognised at Venture, winning seed funding and programme places during the University’s Entrepreneurship Week.
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Meet the New Innovators Shaping the Future
To mark Scotland’s national Innovation Week 2025, we spoke to Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros and Peter Ibrahim from the School of Life Sciences who started their innovation journey during their PhD studies
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“Outstanding” work by 19-year-old Dundee medical student published as an academic book chapter
Jack Molyneux was in the first year of his medicine undergraduate course in Dundee when he wrote an essay so "remarkable" that it’s recently been published as part of an academic book on cancer research
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Dundee medical student wins Sir James Mackenzie Prize for brain cancer research
A Dundee medical student has been recognised for her outstanding research into potential new treatments for brain cancer, after being named the winner of the 2025 Sir James Mackenzie Prize
In case you missed it
Reminding you of some of the incredible work from our community this year
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Dundee academics and PhD students in new Scottish climate science podcast
Dundee academics and PhD students feature in a new podcast produced by the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment, and Society (SAGES)
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Dundee project to preserve the legacy of Afghanistan’s female artists
A University of Dundee student is working to ensure that Afghanistan’s female artists are not forgotten, despite efforts from the country’s Taliban rulers to silence them.
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New study asks: can we trust tech in the quest for justice?
How willing would you be to hand over your mobile phone to the police if they asked to examine its contents? Why are many suspicious of facial recognition technology, yet happy to use this to unlock their digital devices?
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New spin-out targets obesity with muscle-sparing therapies
A University of Dundee spin-out has formed a new company dedicated to developing new obesity therapies that avoid the muscle loss often associated with current GLP-1 drugs.
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A dram good idea – turning whisky waste into sustainable packaging
University researchers will help turn whisky production leftovers into compostable packaging in a newly funded collaboration
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