Eye imaging may shed light on heart disease risk
The University of Dundee is a key partner in a pioneering study aiming to determine whether a scan of blood vessels in the eye can identify signs of heart disease.More than 1,000 patients with...
View ArticleA new target for an ancient medicine
New research carried out by a University of Dundee scientist could lead to new uses for one of the world's oldest medicines.Ancient Egyptian manuscripts described the use of extracts of willow bark as...
View ArticleSonic Screwdriver Tightens up Fundamental Physics
When the scriptwriters for Doctor Who imagined a futuristic device, they came up with the Sonic Screwdriver. Now a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for...
View ArticleEye imaging may shed light on heart disease risk
The University of Dundee is a key partner in a pioneering study aiming to determine whether a scan of blood vessels in the eye can identify signs of heart disease.More than 1,000 patients with...
View ArticleUK health system not designed to cope with rising numbers of people with...
New research published Online First in The Lancet shows that having several medical conditions is not just a feature of old age. Most patients with two or more conditions are actually under 65. Health...
View ArticleDundee duo recognised for outstanding contribution to medical science
Professors Julian Blow and Dario Alessi from the University of Dundee have received the prestigious honour of election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.Julian Blow is Professor of...
View ArticleAcademia-pharma collaboration attracts £14.4million funding in the UK to...
The University of Dundee and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are pleased to announce new funding of over £14million from a consortium of six pharmaceutical companies for continuing research on the...
View ArticleScotCRN two children research case studies available to view, Bids & Apples
Please click here to view BIDs and Apples children research case studies.
View ArticleMolecular 'On-Off' Switch for Parkinson's disease discovered by Dundee...
Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee have discovered a new molecular switch that acts to protect the brain from developing...
View ArticleDundee team provides new insights into diabetes treatment
Researchers from the University of Dundee have made an important discovery about the world’s most commonly prescribed diabetes medicine, which also protects against cancer and cardiovascular disease,...
View ArticleTASC is conducting a short internet based survey on clinical research training.
Your responses will help us to improve and build upon our current clinical research training service. All completed surveys from staff employed by NHS Tayside, Universities of Dundee or Abertay, will...
View ArticleScotland signs up to AcoRD guidance for attributing the costs of health research
Following consultation with Scottish NHS R&D offices, the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) announce that Scotland signs up to guidelines for Attributing the costs of Research and Development in...
View ArticleResearchers enter The Crucible
Civic Reception: 6.15pm, Thursday June 28th,Discovery Point, Dundee.The next generation of leading researchers in Scotland will gather in Dundee over the next two days for a major workshop on Knowledge...
View ArticleLorraine Kelly to lay first brick for Medical School extension...
11am, Friday July 6thClinical Research Centre, NinewellsLorraine Kelly, the television presenter and former Rector of the University of Dundee, will lay the first brick of a major new extension to the...
View ArticleWellcome Trust announces £11m boost for Dundee Researchers
The Wellcome Trust has announced over £11million in strategic funding to two research groups at the University of Dundee.A team led by Professor Irwin McLean has been awarded around £5.9m to help...
View ArticleHypertension drug does not increase breast cancer risk for women over 55
A commonly prescribed medicine used to treat conditions such as heart failure and hypertension does not present women over 55 with any increased risk of breast cancer, a new study at the University of...
View ArticleEvolutionary leap over 500 million years ago gives new insights into human...
Picture is of amphioxus.An evolutionary leap made at the bottom of the ocean over 500 million years ago gives new insights into the causes of human diseases such as diabetes, cancer and neurological...
View ArticleGrant to help collaboration to further knowledge of biochemistry
Scientists from the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews have been awarded £580,000 for leading-edge equipment to further their investigations into biochemical processes that play a role in all human...
View ArticleUniversity shares in 'Confidence In Concept' funding
The University of Dundee has been given the top award of £750,000 in the first funding announcement from the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Technology Strategy Board under the joint £180...
View ArticleNew Centres put health records at the heart of UK medical research
A consortium of 10 UK government and charity funders, led by the Medical Research Council (MRC), has made a historic £19 million investment to establish four e-health research Centres of Excellence in...
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