Announcements
NHS Tayside supports national campaign to tackle child sexual exploitation News
5th February, 2016
NHS Tayside is supporting the first TV campaign in the UK to tackle child sexual exploitation (CSE). The campaign comes as new research shows 93% of parents have heard of child sexual exploitation but almost a third (29%) know little about it and over a third (36%) believe it won’t affect their family. In 2014/15 ChildLine in Scotland provided 635 counselling sessions to children and young...
€2 million to investigate DNA damage and repair News
5th February, 2016
A University of Dundee researcher has been awarded a prestigious €2million grant to investigate how DNA becomes damaged, leading to ageing and disease. Dr Helen Walden, of the University’s School of Life Sciences, has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. The highly competitive awards are given to the best and most creative researchers working in Europe....
`We can, I can’ – Scottish Cancer Prevention Network on World Cancer Day News
5th February, 2016
Scotland’s leading experts on cancer gathered on World Cancer Day (February 4th) to outline how everyone, from governments and health authorities to individuals, can take action against the disease. Experts say around one-third of the most common cancers in the UK could be prevented by changes in diet, physical activity and body weight. The Scottish Cancer Prevention Network’s fifth...
Dundee scientists find DNA “molecular scissors” are vital in preventing cancers News
2nd February, 2016
Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered that “molecular scissors” that repair damaged and abnormal DNA are critical for keeping cancers at bay. The laboratory of Professor John Rouse at the University’s Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitlation Unit (MRC-PPU) first discovered that a protein called FAN1 was important for cutting and repairi...
Identifying Another Piece in the Parkinson's Disease Pathology Puzzle News
2nd February, 2016
An international public-private consortium of researchers brought together by the University of Dundee and led by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has identified and validated for the first time the cellular role of a primary Parkinson’s disease drug target. In work published in eLife, the team comprising investigators from the University of Dundee, Max Planck In...
Mark Beaumont declared Rector of the University of Dundee News
27th January, 2016
Mark Beaumont, the man who cycled the world and has completed a host of long-distance adventures, has been named the new Rector of the University of Dundee. Mark, who attended school in Dundee, assumes the role of Rector with immediate effect. He was elected unopposed and succeeds the actor Brian Cox, who was elected to the position in 2010 and has served two terms. “I am absolutely thrill...
£1.3million funding for Dundee research into the cellular division errors that drive cancer News
25th January, 2016
The University of Dundee’s Dr Adrian Saurin has been awarded £1.3million to explore how the body’s cells replicate themselves correctly and why this goes wrong in cancer. Dr Saurin, of the University’s School of Medicine, has received the funding from Cancer Research UK to carry out fundamental research into the mechanism of cellular division. Four new posts will be create...
Medical school access `dominated by most affluent’, says new study News
25th January, 2016
Access to medical school across the UK is still dominated by students from more affluent parts of society, a new study led by the University of Dundee has shown. The study has revealed considerable variation between the four UK nations and between different medical schools. Researchers from the Universities of Dundee and Central Lancashire analysed application data for 22 medical schools and aro...
Phenomics Discovery Initiative launched News
22nd January, 2016
The Universities of Dundee, Oxford and Edinburgh have announced the formation of the Phenotypic Discovery Initiative (PDi) with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. the first industry partner joining the initiative. A phenotype is one or more observable features or traits that report changes in a biological system or its reaction its environment. Phenotypic screening is the systematic identification of age...
Top researchers to celebrate the career of retiring Professor News
22nd January, 2016
Some of the world’s top diabetes researchers will gather at the University of Dundee on Friday to pay tribute to Professor Steve Greene. Professor Greene, himself an internationally renowned figure in the field, is retiring after a stellar academic and clinical career which saw him significantly further the medical profession’s knowledge of juvenile diabetes. ‘Discovering Diabe...
