5 May 2014

Hundreds of pupils to get flavour of life at University

Photo opportunity: 9.30am-12pm on Tuesday, 6th May at Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill.   Hundreds of pupils from Dundee primary schools will tomorrow have the chance to write and perform their own play, plan a new town and try their hand at teaching during a major public engagement event at the University of Dundee. The second Engage Dundee primary school event will see 350 pupils from St. Luke's & St. Matthew's, St Clement’s, SS Peter & Paul, Clepington, Fintry, Ancrum Road and Hillside schools take part in a series of interactive workshops and exhibitions at the University’s ...

2 May 2014

Life Sciences in Dundee awarded £8 million government investment for research into drug treatment

The College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee has secured £8 million in funding to create a state-of-the-art robotic laboratory to help develop new drugs. The funding from the Scottish Government through the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) will go towards the formation of a robotic drug-screening laboratory at the University of Dundee that will enable new drug therapies to be developed more effectively. The money has been awarded to the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) to create a UK National Phenotypic Screening Centre in Dundee. Phenotypic screening is a form of biol...

2 May 2014

Professor Blair Smith appointed national clinical lead for chronic pain

Professor Blair Smith, of the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside, has been named as the new national clinical lead for chronic pain in Scotland. Professor Smith, a consultant in pain medicine at NHS Tayside and a Professor of Population Health Science at the University of Dundee, will replace Dr Steve Gilbert. He will begin his new role on 1st May. “Chronic pain affects hundreds of thousands of people in Scotland, causing distress to sufferers, their carers, society and the health service,” said Professor Smith.  “The Scottish Government and NHS have done a lot in recent years t...

Professor Blair Smith appointed national clinical lead for chronic pain

2 May 2014

Prestigious international prize for Dundee academic

Professor Nicholas Fyfe, Director of the Scottish Institute of Policing Research (SIPR), based at the University of Dundee, has been named as the joint winner of a prestigious international award for crime policy. The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), based at George Mason University in Washington, have named Professor Fyfe as the winner of their Distinguished Achievement Award, along with Jeremy Travis, President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, University of New York. Professor Fyfe is only the second British recipient of the award, the other being former Chief Constable of Th...

2 May 2014

Trio of big-hitters to set out their referendum case

The University of Dundee’s Five Million Questions (5MQ) initiative will continue its examination of September’s independence referendum when three heavyweight campaigners visit the campus to make their case over the next few weeks. Former Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Alexander will be in conversation with 5MQ Associate Director David Torrance on Friday, 9th May, while similar events with Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney and Alistair Darling, leader of the Better Together campaign, take place on 14nd and 22nd May. The trio are the latest big names from both sides of the debat...