The Drug Discovery Unit announces a partnership with Takeda, Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, to develop possible new therapeutic treatments for tau pathology, an underlying feature in...
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Feb 2019
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Jan 2019
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16 Jan 2019Professor Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, has received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list.
Professor Ferguson has been honoured for...
Jul 2018
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25 Jul 2018Discovery of a new potential treatment for visceral leishmaniasis - one of the world’s major neglected diseases
• Research published in Nature on a new preclinical drug candidate targeting...
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02 Jul 2018Dundee bridges the gap between academia and drug development
Universities have always played a unique role in the life science sector either providing the research behind the innovations or...
May 2017
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Apr 2017
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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 earlier this year stated that, unless we take urgent action, it will be...
Dec 2016
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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-...
Sep 2016
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20 Sep 2016Global Health Chemical Diversity Library
The Global Health Chemical Diversity Library is a 68,689 compound lead-like diversity library prepared for screening against the Bill and Melinda...
May 2016
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26 May 2016The first Dundee Design Festival opened this week and featuring two Life Sciences exhibits
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16 May 2016The DDU is hosting a scientific conference 18 - 20 May 2016 to celebrate its tenth anniversary. We have compiled an international-class list of speakers, discussing the future of drug discovery,... -
16 May 2016The Drug Discovery Unit of the University of Dundee, Scotland, the Institute of Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine (IPTVM) of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Boehringer...
Mar 2016
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08 Mar 2016World-leading medicinal chemistry and biology at the Universities of Dundee (Scotland) and Cape Town (South Africa) have been allied to the industrial expertise of the...
Jun 2015
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30 Jun 2015The University of Dundee Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has been awarded “Project of the Year, 2014” by the non-for profit organisation, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The award is for “DDD107498...
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17 Jun 2015A team of scientists, led by the University of Dundee Drug Discovery Unit in partnership with Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and collaborating laboratories, has published in Nature...