Announcements
Royal Society Honour for Professor Doreen Cantrell News
21st May, 2011
Professor Doreen Cantrell, Head of the College of Life Sciences and Vice-Principal of the University of Dundee, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.Professor Cantrell is one of 44 new Fellows and eight new Foreign Members elected to the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. She has been recognized for her internationally renowned work in the field of immunology.Sir...
Professor Allan Struthers elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences News
10th May, 2011
Professor Allan Struthers, of the University of Dundee Medical School, is among 40 of the United Kingdom’s leading medical researchers who have been recognised for excellence in medical science with their election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.Academy Fellows are elected for outstanding contributions to the advancement of medical science, for innovative application of...
HRH The Princess Royal opens new Centre for Molecular Medicine News
30th April, 2011
HRH The Princess Royal will visit the University of Dundee on Tuesday April 19th, when she will officially open the new Centre for Molecular Medicine and also visit the College of Life Sciences.The Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM) is a new facility housed within the Clinical Research Centre, a state of the art research facility and imaging centre which is part of the University’s School o...
£4000 cheque presentation to Breast Cancer Research News
30th April, 2011
Two ladies from Kinross who have raised thousands of pounds for charity will make their latest donation to Breast Cancer Research tomorrow (Tuesday April 19th).Gillian Young and her friend Zoe Tod have been amazing in their quest to raise funds for breast cancer research and in total they have donated £7,000 over the past 2 years. They have held fundraising events including Zumba Classes, ra...
£1million grant boosts academia-business links News
30th April, 2011
Links between Tayside’s internationally renowned Life Sciences research institutes and businesses across Scotland are being strengthened through a funding package of more than £1million.The University of Dundee, the University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee City Council (through the BioDundee project) and the James Hutton Institute (formerly the Scottish Crop Research and Macaulay Land Rese...
Global experts gather in Dundee for rehabilitation & participation conference News
30th April, 2011
Experts in health and social sciences from across Europe and the USA will gather in Dundee next week for a major conference exploring the latest developments in rehabilitation and participation research and practice.Healthcare across the developed world is seeing a general shift in how rehabilitation and renewed participation in society is delivered to recovering patients.The conference will look...
Scot study recruits 4000th volunteer News
6th April, 2011
A major research project into the safety of long term pain relief for sufferers of arthritis has taken a significant step forward this week with the recruitment of its 4000th patient volunteer.The SCOT study is designed to examine the effectiveness and safety of drugs commonly used to treat the pain of arthritis. Patients in Scotland and at centres in England, Denmark and the Netherlands are being...
New gene identified as a cause of male infertility News
21st March, 2011
An international research collaboration - including the University of Dundee - has identified a gene responsible for one of the causes of male infertility.The gene discovery relates to a condition known as round headed sperm, or globozoospermia, which affects a small percentage of men suffering from infertility problems.Until now the main cause of the condition was unknown but new research involvi...
T Cell findings boost virus & transplant research News
21st March, 2011
Researchers at the University of Dundee have developed new insights into the operation of white blood cells which play a vital role in fighting viral infections and dealing with organ transplants.Cytotoxic T cells are a subpopulation of white blood cells that have an essential role in fighting fight viral infections. They work by killing the cells in our bodies that are infected with viruses. They...
Scots family study attracts more than 23,000 volunteers News
21st March, 2011
Professor Andrew Morris, Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee and lead on the Scottish Family Health Study.One of the largest health studies ever launched in Scotland has now recruited more than 23,000 volunteers, all of them contributing to a project which could have a major impact on the people’s health for generations to come.The Scottish Family Health...
