The University of Dundee today welcomed news of an £8 million boost to lay down the infrastructure which will pave the way for ambitious future research into the fields of health, life sciences and science and engineering.
Three projects at the University of Dundee have attracted a total of £8,196,000 under the latest round of the Science Research Investment Fund which includes funding of £1,098,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
Deputy Principal Professor David Boxer said the announcement was another significant boost to scientific research in Dundee and underlined the University's important international research contribution to the broader Scottish knowledge-economy.
"This is a highly significant development which ensures we can build on Dundee's research excellence across a range of activities with important applications to people's lives from health informatics and life sciences to product design and technology for the elderly."
The three successful projects are:
Centre for Health Informatics £1,196,000
This will provide a focus for research on social dimensions of health by bringing together anonymised data from a range of health projects and sources creating a pool of secure information for research and its translation into practice. The centre will be built at the Ninewells site close to the University's Tayside Centre for General Practice (see separate release ). It will be created in partnership with Tayside Primary Care Trust.
Contact Professor Peter Davey, Clinical Pharmacology 01382 632575 peter@memo.dundee.ac.uk
Centre for multi-disciplinary research in engineering and physical science £3,000,000
This will expand and improve facilities bringing groups conducting related research closer together including
newbuild dedicated to technology to support older people,
improved concrete technology research laboratories
expanded geotechnical engineering laboratories
specialist laboratories for tissue engineering, medical and biomedical engineering and product design
Contact Professor Michael Davies, School of Engineering 01382 348327 m.c.r.davies@dundee.ac.uk
And
Centre for Interdisciplinary research £4,000,000
This state of the art medical research centre will assist biomedical scientists in their quest against diseases such as cancer, inflammation and Alzheimer's Disease. Leading cancer research scientist Professor Sir David Lane of the University's Ninewells Hospital said: "This facility will be of enormous benefit in developing treatments and cures for diseases such as cancer, inflammation and Alzheimer's which cause such suffering. Its presence in Dundee will accelerate the enormous biomedical effort already driving forward here, and underpins the university's position as a world leader in biomedical science."
Contact Press Officer Carol Pope 01382 344021 press@dundee.ac.uk /ends