Experts from the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Nottingham, along with Public Health England, will build the infrastructure for CO-CONNECT, a £4million UK-wide initiative to support research into the COVID-19 antibody response, by...
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Oct 2020
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19-Oct-2020A life sciences researcher has been awarded Future Leaders Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Dr Megan Bergkessel, Principal Investigator in the Division of Molecular Microbiology, was awarded over £900k to research how some...
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05-Oct-2020More than 2000 Tayside healthcare staff took part in a ground-breaking study looking at the prevalence of Covid-19 antibodies in healthcare workers in Scotland.
MATCH is the first major antibody study of healthcare staff carried out in...
Sep 2020
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24-Sep-2020Joana Faria has been awarded a SULSA Early Career Research Prize for Development and Regulation. The award is made to outstanding early career scientists whose work shows excellent potential to make an impact in the field of life sciences.
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18-Sep-2020BMVA is the UK’s learned society providing a forum for researchers and organisations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition since 1990, following on from the Alvey Vision Committee (1985-1989).
The BMVA...
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07-Sep-2020Scientists from the University of Dundee have announced key findings from two separate studies they believe could unlock the development of a new type of treatment for lung conditions, including Covid-19.
Researchers studied patients with...
Aug 2020
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27-Aug-2020Scientists at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) at the University of Dundee have been awarded £4.9million in follow-on funding from the Wellcome Trust, boosting their efforts to understand more about potential drugs that...
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18-Aug-2020- CARE (Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe) is the largest undertaking of its kind dedicated to discovering and developing urgently needed treatment options for Covid-19
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18-Aug-2020Natalie Bamford, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the lab of Nicola Stanley-Wall, has been awarded a prestigious two-year EMBO Long-term fellowship to study bacterial biofilms which will help efforts to remove biofilms when they are...
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10-Aug-2020The Multiple Disease Screening from Retinal Imaging project, a joint initiative between the University of Dundee and University of Edinburgh, has received £176,000 funding from Scottish Enterprise’s High Growth Spinout Programme.
The...
Jul 2020
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23-Jul-2020The mechanism of a protein which transports ammonium across cell membranes has been discovered in research led at the University of Strathclyde, in collaboration with the University of Dundee and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. The discovery...
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05-Jul-2020The University of Dundee’s Professor James Chalmers is the Scottish lead of a major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of Covid-19 on hospitalised patients launched today.
The PHOSP-COVID study has been awarded £8.4...
Jun 2020
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16-Jun-2020The University of Dundee is leading the clinical trial of a new anti-inflammatory drug it is hoped may reduce instances of severe lung damage and death in Covid-19 patients.
Researchers from the University’s School of Medicine will work...
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11-Jun-2020Dr Sarah Coulthurst, deputy head of the Division of Molecular Microbiology, has had her Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship renewed for a further five years. The £1.9 million award will allow Sarah and her team to continue their ongoing...
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02-Jun-2020The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has received €5 million of funding to develop antiviral treatments for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.
This significant investment by the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, initiated...
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