Divisions, centres, and units in Life Sciences

The School of Life Sciences is structured into divisions, centres and units. This allows research groups studying similar topics to be grouped together to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary working.

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Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery

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Improving our understanding of pathogen biology and transforming drug discovery for both infectious and non-infectious diseases; making the previously undruggable, druggable.

Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery

Cell Signalling and Immunology

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Our research is concerned with the pathologies associated with cancer, diabetes, infectious disease, autoimmunity and allergy.

Cell Signalling and Immunology

Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation

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We are bolstering the University of Dundee’s world-leading position in a field that is revolutionising drug discovery.

Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation

Computational Biology

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We bring together scientists with skills in developing and applying computational, mathematical and biophysical techniques to questions in biological and medical research.

Computational Biology

Drug Discovery Unit

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We translate basic science into lead compounds to validate putative drug targets, to use as tools to investigate disease pathways and, when appropriate, advance to pre-clinical drug candidates.

Drug Discovery Unit

Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit

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We focus on the understanding of the biological roles of phosphorylation and ubiquitylation and how disruption of these processes cause human diseases such as neurodegeneration, cancer, hypertension and immune disorders.

MRC-PPU

Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

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We investigate the molecular mechanisms that underpin cell and tissue biology. This includes the regulation of cell division and how the expression and function of genes and proteins are regulated during differentiation in embryonic and adult tissues.

MCDB

Molecular Microbiology

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Our research flows from fundamental science using model organisms to translational research on medically- and economically-significant pathogens

Molecular Microbiology

Plant Sciences

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Our partnership brings together our discovery-based molecular plant science investigating fundamental questions of plant biology, with scientists with knowledge of applied research in crop species including front-line crop and pathogen genomics, genetics and cultivar production.

Plant Sciences

Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR)

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Our centre brings together the Drug Discovery Unit, the Mode of Action group and the Parasitology research groups providing an integrated pathway from discovery science to pre-clinical candidate selection.

WCAIR