Latest News
September 2013
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26 Sep 2013Dundee’s quest for new treatments for neglected diseases to be explored at Café Science event The University of Dundee’s efforts to combat neglected tropical diseases in the developing world will be discussed at the next Café Science event to take place. Professor Alan Fairlamb of the University’s Drug Discovery Unit will outline the cutting-edge work being carried out in order to develop new medicines for diseases such as Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease, and African Sleeping Sickness at Chambers Coffee House & Restaurant on Monday, 30th September.
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18 Sep 2013Scott Haston, an Honours student in Dr Kim Dale's laboratory in the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology has received a commendation from the 2013 Undergraduate Awards for his essay entitled "The Role of Notch Signaling in Early Avian Embryo Progenitor Cell Fate Decisions".
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17 Sep 2013Richard Green, a James Black Scholarship student working in the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology under the tutelage of Dr Kim Dale, completed his summer experience by creating an artistic impression of his project.
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11 Sep 2013A series of discoveries made by scientists at the University of Dundee is helping to uncover the secrets of how chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are caused and could lead to new treatments being developed.
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10 Sep 2013
The University of Dundee’s excellence in Medicine and Life Sciences has been recognised in the QS World University Rankings 2013/14. Dundee is ranked 55th= in the world for Medicine and Life Sciences.
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06 Sep 2013Research from the Division of Plant Sciences features on the front cover of this week’s Science Magazine. The work reports the discovery of a previously unrecognized enzyme in the pathway that synthesizes lignin, a polymer in plant cell walls.
