August 2003 Press Releases

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28 August 2003 TICR trek Dundee's Lord Provost John Letford will take a brave step this weekend. Still recovering from a major heart operation but cleared by his doctor for the challenge, the Lord Provost will undertake the nine mile TICR trek in Pitlochry for the Institute for Cardiovascular Research as he knows it is good for his heart and for funding research in Dundee on heart disease.
27 August 2003 Big fundraising push Over the past four weekends, scientists in the School of Life Sciences have been fund raising for their new Diabetes Research Centre at four TESCO stores in Dundee and Perth. So far, they have collected £10,945 to which TESCO will add an additional 20%.
25 August 2003 Heart-throb goes online Harvey, the handsome heart-throb cardiac-simulator, who is teaching medical students skills in clinical practice, launches his website this week allowing medical students all over the UK to swap ideas on the best way to use Harvey to hone their clinical skills.
22 August 2003 Summer school ceremony 300 guests attended the 2003 University of Dundee Access Summer School Concluding Ceremony last night to help 70 student celebrate their success.
21 August 2003 Architecture for all The Dundee Institute of Architecture (DIA) is launching a new initiative to engage and excite the public about architecture tomorrow as they show their new magazine for a public audience in one of Dundee's most exciting architectural ventures this year.
21 August 2003 Cheques for TICR Fundraising for The Institute for Cardiovascular Research (TICR) has been taking place around Dundee even before the Big City Challenge and the Gala Ball take off for healthy heart week in September.
21 August 2003 Eye to eye The biggest international conference on eye movements is meeting at the University of Dundee this week discussing a range of subjects on eye movement including the time lag between eye and voice when a singer is reading both text and music.
19 August 2003 Record breaking collection for Diabetes Research Centre Scientists in the School of Life Sciences collected £3,311 over the weekend at TESCO, Riverside, Dundee and TESCO, Edinburgh Road, Perth, exceeding the amount collected in either of the first two weekends of the August-long campaign.
18 August 2003 Unseen Beatles photo up for auction A world exclusive print of a never before published photograph of the Beatles, taken during the height of their fame during the filming of Help! in the 1960s, is the star lot in a unique online TICR charity auction going live on Monday 18 August.
14 August 2003 Potential drug target for Infectious Diseases A team of scientists from the University of Dundee, in collaboration with research groups from Munich and Grenoble have determined the structure of a key target enzyme for novel drug development to treat a wide range of infectious diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted bacterial infections.
14 August 2003 Cycling for Diabetes Research Centre The 3rd annual School of Life Sciences Sponsored Cycle sees three Professors and a Laboratory Manager from the University of Dundee polishing their spokes and oiling their chains this week in preparation for a 185 mile cycle challenge contributing to the fundraising campaign for the University's Diabetes Research Centre.
13 August 2003 Fundraising Samurai ball BBC Broadcaster and University of Dundee honorary graduate John Simpson will be one of the guests of honour at a unique fundraising event in Dundee on 27th September to raise funds for the flagship Institute for Cardiovascular Research (TICR).
13 August 2003 TESCOTHON raises a further £4,000 for Diabetes Research After a marathon 16 and a half hours collecting at Tesco Riverside last weekend Sir Philip Cohen was tired but elated to learn that he had collected £1009 for the new Diabetes Research Centre that will be built next to the Wellcome Trust Biocentre.
12 August 2003 Lorraine launches Big City Challenge Dundee will become Fun-dee on 20th September when TV star Lorraine Kelly sounds the starting gun for the City's first Big City Challenge.
11 August 2003 Citation success According to the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, research papers published by scientists at the University of Dundee over the 10 year period from January 1993 until April 2003 were quoted more frequently by other scientists (termed citations) than papers from scientists at any other University in Europe.
8 August 2003 Local support vital for new Diabetes Research Centre Sir Philip Cohen, spearheading fundraising at the University of Dundee for a new research centre focussing on diabetes, today thanked all the citizens of Dundee for contributing so generously at Tesco, Riverside and Monifieth during the first few days of the campaign.
7 August 2003 Maths predicts divorce "Maths can predict divorce" says a top academic attending a Mathematical Biology Conference at the University of Dundee this week.