Researchers from the School have worked with collaborators in Cambridge to uncover the inner workings of a cellular pump which helps bacterial cells neutralise the effects of antibiotics. This work has implications in the fight against...
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May 2017
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Apr 2017
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27-Apr-2017The University of Dundee has been awarded £7.9 million by the Wellcome Trust for a joint project with GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) to boost efforts to find new drugs to treat some of the world’s most devastating parasitic diseases including visceral...
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10-Apr-2017Dr James Chalmers, of the University of Dundee, has been awarded the Patrick Neill Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his outstanding research work on respiratory infections and his expertise in bronchiectasis.
The Patrick Neill...
Mar 2017
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27-Mar-2017Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest threats to global human and animal health – the O’Neill Report published last year stated that, unless we take urgent action, it will be directly responsible for over 10 million deaths by 2050,...
Feb 2017
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09-Feb-2017A major international review led by the University of Dundee’s Professor Peter Davey has identified effective and safe ways to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics in hospitals.
The updated Cochrane Review published today concludes that...
Dec 2016
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20-Dec-2016A study conducted by the University of Dundee has shown for the first time that a simple test can predict chest infections before they occur in patients with bronchiectasis, a common lung condition which affects people of all ages and leads to...
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07-Dec-2016The University of Dundee has been awarded £13.6 million by Wellcome to establish a new research centre to tackle some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
The Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (CAIR) builds on world-...
Nov 2016
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03-Nov-2016A newly identified method of activating drugs to combat one of the world’s most destructive `neglected’ diseases could lead to better medicines according to new research led by the University of Dundee.
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a...
Oct 2016
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14-Oct-2016As part of the 2016 Annual Review process for academic staff Alessio Ciulli, Vicky Cowling, Sonia Rocha...
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10-Oct-2016Staphylococcus aureus...
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05-Oct-2016A team of researchers from the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh have...
Sep 2016
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20-Sep-2016Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a looming global threat that will be brought before the world’s heads of state on September 21st at a historic high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Professor Dilip...
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16-Sep-2016The cattle disease nagana, also called African animal trypanosomiasis, caused by the parasites Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma congolense, affects huge swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, and the T. vivax disease has also spread to South America....
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14-Sep-2016Malaria remains one of the world’s leading causes of mortality in developing countries. Last year alone, it killed more than 400,000 people, mostly young children. This week in ACS Central Science, an international consortium of researchers,...
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13-Sep-2016David Foley has been shortlisted for the KickStart Digital Entrepreneur Award in the Converge Challenge, Scotland’s entrepreneurial development programme, for his proposed company, Elemental Therapeutics. The idea is to develop a new technology...
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