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April 2012
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27 Apr 2012This event aims to give an overview of Wellcome Trust funding followed by more detailed parallel workshops which either focus on funding for Junior/Mid researchers or funding for more Senior researchers. There will also be an opportunity to have an informal discussion with the speakers at the networking lunch. Wellcome Trust Funding Seminar 10:30 am, Friday 15 June 2012 Dalhousie Building
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26 Apr 2012A paper co-authored by Professors Kate Storey and Jason Swedlow has won the BioMed Central’s 6th Annual Research Award in the category for Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry.
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24 Apr 2012Dr. Vicky Cowling, MRC Career Development Fellow in the Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology has been awarded tenure at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Victoria Cowling graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University with a BA in Natural Sciences and went on to do her doctoral research with Julian Downward and Gerard Evan at Cancer Research UK laboratories in London.
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23 Apr 2012The Wellcome Trust has awarded a grant of £800,000 in support of structural biology and drug discovery in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. The grant has allowed the installation of new X-ray diffraction equipment and a robotic sample changer. The new equipment is for research in single crystal X-ray diffraction, which is the most powerful technique for revealing accurate three-dimensional molecular structures.
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23 Apr 2012Grahame Hardie’s news story about aspirin’s potential for preventing cancer has gone global.
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19 Apr 2012New research carried out by Professor Grahame Hardie at the College of Life Sciences could lead to new uses for one of the world’s oldest medicines.
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19 Apr 2012BioDundee Conference 2012 12th Annual BioDundee International Conference Diversity in Adversity Hilton Hotel, Dundee, Scotland, UK 30th - 31st May 2012
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19 Apr 2012The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit has been nominated for a prestigious industry award recognising excellence in knowledge exchange.
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16 Apr 2012Research Innovation Translation
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13 Apr 2012The College of Life Sciences Innovator of the Year Award for 2012 has been jointly won by two postdoctoral researchers. Dr Richard Bickerton of the Hopkins Lab won for his innovation Quantitative Estimate of Druggability and Dr Ayaz Najafov of the Alessi Lab won for his inn
