Announcements
UK first for Dundee Dental Students News
19th January, 2012
Dental students at the University of Dundee have become the first in the UK to be trained to carry out surgical dental treatment on specially embalmed bodies.The Thiel method of embalming which has been adopted by the University leaves cadavers with more life-like properties than those embalmed in the standard way.Bodies are donated for the purposes of teaching, training and research, and arrangem...
Dundee ranked among world\'s best for research News
13th January, 2012
The University of Dundee has been named among the world’s leading centres for scientific research, according to a new league table published today (January 12th).The Leiden Ranking 2012, which uses a sophisticated set of varied indicators to assess the quality and importance of scientific research at 500 of the world’s top universities, places Dundee 78th overall.In the key indicator o...
Dundee ranked among world\'s best for research News
13th January, 2012
The University of Dundee has been named among the world’s leading centres for scientific research, according to a new league table published today (January 12th).The Leiden Ranking 2012, which uses a sophisticated set of varied indicators to assess the quality and importance of scientific research at 500 of the world’s top universities, places Dundee 78th overall.In the key indicator o...
Groundbreaking cancer trials centre launched in Dundee News
23rd December, 2011
The launch of a new centre to run clinical trials of the newest cancer treatments will put Dundee at the forefront of cancer research and bring benefits to patients in the area.The newly-created joint Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)*, is the latest addition to the ECMC network of 18 UK centres, which are jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and the Departments of Health in England, Scot...
GSK and the University of Dundee announce new collaboration to develop treatment for Huntington\'s disease News
15th December, 2011
The University of Dundee and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have entered into a joint research project to tackle Huntington's disease, an inherited brain disorder.The project looks to build on the findings of Professor Susann Schweiger, of the University of Dundee, who has discovered a mechanism that controls production of the disease-causing protein involved in Huntington’s Disease.'If we can inhibi...
Dundee Cell Products attracts new grants, appoints new Chairman News
30th November, 2011
Dundee Cell Products Ltd (DCP), a spin-out company from the University of Dundee, has attracted two new grants to support its product development and commercialisation activities.DCP is a supplier of high quality products and innovative tools for biochemistry and molecular and cell biology research. DCP company also offers advanced research services, to facilitate the discovery and development of...
Dundee Professor elected president of international Diabetes body News
23rd November, 2011
Professor Stephen Greene, of the University of Dundee, has been elected President of the International Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), one of the world's leading bodies on child health.Professor Greene is the Academic Lead on Child Health in the School of Medicine at Dundee. He will serve at ISPAD President from 2012 to 2015, during which time he will oversee their 2014 annu...
Researchers identify skin cancer genes News
23rd November, 2011
The genes which contribute to the most frequently occurring life threatening form of skin cancer have been identified for the first time by a research collaboration between the University of Dundee and scientists at Harvard and University of California, San Francisco. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the most frequently occurring life threatening skin cancer. Unlike other common skin ca...
Government’s lead public health official Professor David R Harper to move to world health organization News
23rd November, 2011
Professor David R Harper CBE, the Chief Scientist and Director General for Health Improvement and Protection at the Department of Health has announced that he will be moving to the World Health Organization, after eight years at the top level of public health in the UK. He will take up a new role on secondment in Geneva to advise on global preparedness for health security, from March 2012.Professo...
