Our immune system relies on complex signalling between different cells to activate different responses. Now, a collaboration between the labs of Ignacio Moraga and Doryen Bubeck at Imperial have determined how an important component of the immune system – a ‘cytokine’ protein called interleukin 27 (IL-27) – elicits an immune response.
The University of Dundee has received an award of funding to develop a new therapeutic approach for inflammatory disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
The award was made by beLAB1407, a partnership between four leading UK academic institutions and the pharmaceutical companies Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb. The initiative aims to achieve pre-clinical proof of concept for novel therapeutic targets with the goal of developing new spinout companies or licensing opportunities.
Summary of Job Purpose and Principal Duties
We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant within our cytokine signalling group to study how cytokines regulate gut regeneration.
Alison McFarlane, a final year PhD student in Dr Ignacio Moragas lab in the Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology has been awarded a 2 year Science and Business Fellowship at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies Of Johnson & Johnson in Leiden, Netherlands.
The Science & Business Fellowship started in June 2022 and is aimed at developing business and leadership skills, in addition to expanding research experience. In this way participants can develop into the (scientific) leaders of the future.
Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology & TIG
School of Life Sciences
Professor Jenny Woof has been named as one of this year’s winners of the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching.
Professor Woof commented “I am delighted and honoured to receive this award. I’m very aware that delivery of an excellent programme of teaching can only be achieved through strong teamwork, and I am very fortunate to work with colleagues across the Schools of Life Sciences and Medicine who are so committed to delivery of a first-rate student experience.”
The results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) were announced today. Dundee is the top-ranking University for Biological Sciences research, a position we have maintained since the last REF exercise in 2014. The REF2021 assessment has scored SLS as having a total of 71% of its activities being ‘world leading’ (4*) and 28% of its activities being ‘internationally excellent’ (3*).
Professor Grahame Hardie, from the School of Life Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious Sir Philip Randle Lecture in recognition of his record of excellence in biochemistry.
The lecture is one of a series of awards presented by the Biochemical Society each year. Professor Hardie will give the lecture at a meeting of the Society in 2023.
