17 May 2016
Global experts celebrate 10th anniversary of Drug Discovery Unit
The University of Dundee will host an international symposium this week to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of its Drug Discovery Unit, the world-renowned centre which last year revealed the discovery of a potential anti-malarial compound. The event in the University’s School of Life Sciences marks a decade of academic drug discovery and working with partners to deliver possible new treatment for malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, cancer and many other diseases. The Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) was born in 2006 when Professors Alan Fairlamb and Mike Ferguson, working on tropical parasitic diseases in...
16 May 2016
University responds to celebrity homewrecker claims
The University of Dundee is unable to confirm or deny whether Miss Caitlin Ryan, of Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, has applied to study at its world-renowned Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Speculation has been rife that the talented artist was set to leave Weatherfield’s cobbled streets behind to travel north in order to pursue her creative ambitions ever since her boyfriend Craig Tinker outlined his fears that he was about to lose his first love to the City of Discovery - http://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/extras/craig-and-caitlin-colson-smith-interview. So...
16 May 2016
Partnership to tackle parasitic animal diseases
The Drug Discovery Unit of the University of Dundee, Scotland, the Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine (IPTVM) of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Germany, today announced they have initiated first steps for a partnership to discover new and effective treatments for parasitic diseases which affect companion animals and livestock. Parasites are a major cause of disease in animals, often impacting animal welfare and leading to significant economic loss for farmers. The intention of the three parties is to intensify their partnership i...
13 May 2016
PAMIS to lead PMLD Awareness Day
University of Dundee-based charity PAMIS will next week host their second Profound and Multiple Learning Disability (PMLD) Awareness Day. Events will take place across Scotland as part of the programme, which aims to raise awareness of both the difficulties that people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and their families face and also the ways they can be helped to be more active and valued members of society. PMLD Awareness Day is a being held on Monday, 16th May 2016 and will see the activities that people with PMLD can take part in such as adaptive skiing, yoga, craft, wheelchair ice sk...
12 May 2016
Dundee Professor named Conservationist of the Year
Tony Martin, Professor of Animal Conservation at the University of Dundee, has been named as Conservationist of the Year in recognition of his exceptional leadership of the world’s largest rodent eradication operation. Professor Martin, of the University’s Centre for Remote Environments, received the prestigious award from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). He leads the South Gergia Heritage Trust’s Habitat Restoration Project, which seeks to reverse two centuries of devastation caused by rats that threatens the globally important seabird sanctuary of South Georgia, a British Overse...
