3 Feb 2015
Cancer experts challenged to make meetings healther
Scotland’s leading experts on cancer will be challenged to make meetings healthier and help practice what they preach when they meet for the annual Scottish Cancer Prevention Network conference on Wednesday February 4th, World Cancer Day. The SCPN is launching the `Healthy meetings in 10 lines’ initiative at the conference, which aims to encourage meetings organisers in all walks of life to make meetings healthier. “We want people to promote healthier meetings and demonstrate that there is no need to sit for hours on end and then be presented with sausage rolls and crisps for lunch...
2 Feb 2015
ALFIE asking for over-65s to boost research
Over-65’s in Tayside are being asked to help researchers aiming to find out if a commonly used drug, normally given for treating gout, could boost muscle strength and give a better quality of life in later years. Allopurinol is a medicine which doctors have been prescribing for over 50 years, normally for the treatment of gout. However, research has indicated that allopurinol may also be able to improve the amount of oxygen available in leg muscles. A research team at the University of Dundee want to see if allopurinol does offer a significant boost for muscle strength. They are looking for around ...
30 Jan 2015
University Innovation Portal helps attract Cellexus to Dundee
The University of Dundee’s Innovation Portal has played a key role in helping an emergent life sciences company relocate to Dundee from England. Cellexus cited Scotland's reputation as a life sciences hub as well as strong links with academia and the NHS as it moved operations from Cambridgeshire to Dundee. The innovative business also received £250,000 of equity funding from the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise. Bob Cumming, Director of Cellexus, said the company chose Dundee over other life science hubs in Scotland as it is already doing development ...
30 Jan 2015
Illustrating the potential at pop-up store
Final-year Illustration students from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will tomorrow use at a pop-up shop in Dundee city centre to raise money for their Degree Show. The students will be selling work at the pop-up shop hosted by Time Lifestyle Boutique in Reform Street from 12-4pm on Saturday, 31st January. The money they raise will be used to purchase materials for the flagship exhibition in May. Time Lifestyle Boutique champions local designers wherever possible and owner Nicola Donnelly says she is keen to support all creative ambassadors for a city undergoing cultural developme...
29 Jan 2015
SiDE User Group to be celebrated at event to mark culmination of project
Computing researchers from the University of Dundee will next week bring together hundreds of older people from Tayside and Fife to thank them for their taking part in research studies directed at the development of inclusive technologies. Members of the Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) User Pool will gather at the University’s School of Computing on Saturday, 7th February for a special Dissemination and Celebration event and to hear about the innovative research projects they have helped with over the past 5 years. SiDE is an interdisciplinary research collaboration between the ...
