22 Jan 2016
£1.3million funding for research into the cellular division errors that drive cancer
The University of Dundee’s Dr Adrian Saurin has been awarded £1.3million to explore how the body’s cells replicate themselves correctly and why this goes wrong in cancer. Dr Saurin, of the University’s School of Medicine, has received the funding from Cancer Research UK to carry out fundamental research into the mechanism of cellular division. Four new posts will be created as part of the six-year study. When division occurs, the new cells should be exact copies of the original but this process goes wrong in the vast majority of cancer cells. The result is that cells within the sa...
22 Jan 2016
BAUM’s Tree of Life to grow from Apple seeds
A fledgling Dundee-based games company will launch their first game in style this week as it goes live on the Apple App store in 12 different languages. BAUM is an enchanting, highly-addictive 2D platform game and is the first release of Dundee independent games studio, A Fox Wot I Drew. The company is the brainchild of the trio of Dominic Littler, Dan Allan and Kai Creedon, who originally joined forces for Abertay University’s `Dare To Be Digital’ competition in 2014, where they won the inaugural Design in Action / Dare to be Digital Prize for Commercial Potential, worth £20,000. Tran...
20 Jan 2016
Top researchers to celebrate the career of retiring Professor
Some of the world’s top diabetes researchers will gather at the University of Dundee on Friday to pay tribute to Professor Steve Greene. Professor Greene, himself an internationally renowned figure in the field, is retiring after a stellar academic and clinical career which saw him significantly further the medical profession’s knowledge of juvenile diabetes. ‘Discovering Diabetes in Dundee’ is a conference organised to celebrate Professor Greene’s achievements on the occasion of his retirement. It takes place from 12pm-5pm on Friday, 22nd January at the Gannochy Trust Lectu...
20 Jan 2016
Phenomics Discovery Initiative launched
The Universities of Dundee, Oxford and Edinburgh have announced the formation of the Phenotypic Discovery Initiative (PDi) with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. the first industry partner joining the initiative. A phenotype is one or more observable features or traits that report changes in a biological system or its reaction its environment. Phenotypic screening is the systematic identification of agents (such as small molecules, biological molecules or genetic mutations) that alter a phenotype. Phenotypic changes are a factor in most diseases, whether it is a cancer cell undergoing uncontrolled cell division...
19 Jan 2016
Lego robots to battle waste – and each other
Lego robots will this weekend battle it out at the University of Dundee to prove they have what it takes to help to tackle the world’s waste problems. The FIRST LEGO League (FLL) event will see teams of youngsters aged 9-16 from the Tayside area compete against each other in a series of challenges designed to make the participants think about the challenges created by waste. It takes place at the University’s Queen Mother Building from 10am to 3pm on Saturday, 23rd January. Having designed and built autonomous robots using mechanics and Lego, the young master builders and inventors have been ...
