15 Oct 2015
Dundee in world’s top 100 universities for Medicine and Health
The University of Dundee has scored another impressive international rating after being placed 90th in Times Higher Education’s World University subject rankings for Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health. The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. “This is another excellent result for Dundee that highlights our international standing in medical science and allied health subjects,&rdquo...
14 Oct 2015
Research leads to change in medicine labelling for salt content
University of Dundee research that showed high salt levels in common medicines put patients at increased risk of cardiovascular events has led to a recommendation for a Europe-wide change in labelling legislation for medication. The 2013 study, led by Dr Jacob George from the University’s School of Medicine alongside collaborators from University College London, showed that millions of patients were exceeding the recommended daily limits for sodium, without any additional dietary intake. Many commonly prescribed medicines have sodium added to improve their absorption into the body but excess salt i...
14 Oct 2015
‘Tomorrow Was a Montage’ – work of celebrated East European artists to take place at Cooper Gallery
The next exhibition to take place at the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery will bring together work by three generations of Polish and Hungarian artists around the practice of montage. Featuring graphic design, animation, films and performance, ‘Tomorrow Was a Montage’ opens on Thursday, 29th October. The exhibition features 60 poster works by the internationally celebrated graphic designer Roman Cie?lewicz, exhibited for the first time in Scotland, and films by preeminent filmmakers including Jan Lenica’s 1963 animation Labyrinth, considered to be one of the finest political a...
13 Oct 2015
Men aged 25 and 34 sought for art project
A Fine Art student from the University of Dundee is appealing for 25 and 34-year-old men to take part in a project helping her to deal with the death of her brother nine years ago. Mhari Davidson’s younger brother Shaun was only 25 when he died in 2006. She is looking for nine men of the same age as Shaun was when he died and another nine the same age as he would be now to pose for photographs as part of her work examining the changes that people undergo during that nine-year period and wondering what her brother would have been like now. Mhari, a Year 3 student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of ...
13 Oct 2015
‘Life and healthcare in the era of cures’ – Monday, 19th October
The hope that scientific breakthroughs offer to sufferers of diseases and the challenging questions they raise will be explored at the University of Dundee next week. Professor Patrick Vallance, Research and Development lead at GlaxoSmithKline, will deliver this year’s Dow Memorial Lecture 2015 at the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill, on Monday, 19th October. ‘Life and healthcare in the era of cures’ will see Professor Vallance highlight the scientific opportunities that research promises as well as the philosophical, ethical and economic questions that society and government must face ...
