Dr. Joao Rodrigues of the Ferguson Lab in the Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, has been awarded the title of Early Stage Investigator 2008 by the British Society for Proteome Research.
This year the Royal Society of Edinburgh are to honour two professors at the University of Dundee both of whom are affiliated with the College of Life Sciences. The RSE’s Royal Medals for 2008 are being awarded to Professor Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE for his outstanding contribution to mathematics and software development and Sir David Lane FRS FRSE for his outstanding contribution to cancer research through his discovery of P53 tumour suppressor gene.
Researchers at the University of Dundee studying how cells control the output of specific genes have been awarded £2.8million in grants by the Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest medical research charity.
Dr Joost Zomerdijk, based in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression at the College of Life Sciences, has been awarded £1.1million and Professor Jeff Williams, also based at the College of Life Sciences, has been given £1.7million.
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To mark the occasion of Professor John Raven's retirement and to celebrate his career in science a Symposium "Algae, Photosynthesis and Global Change" will be held on Friday 12th September 2008.
£1.7million grant from the Wellcome Trust for Mike Ferguson and Ian Gilbert to further investigate African Sleeping Sickness
Researchers at the University of Dundee have been granted £1.7million to try and find the chink in the armour of one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases.
The College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee congratulates Professor David Baulcombe, University of Cambridge, on winning the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. The awards, from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, have been awarded since 1946 to scientists, physicians and public servants for major contributions to medical science.
University of Dundee researchers in areas as diverse as microbiology, engineering, drug discovery, and archive and record development are among those to benefit from more than £3.8million in grants being distributed by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The SCottish Institute for ceLL Signalling (SCILLS) is a new research centre funded by the Scottish Government. SCILLS was launched on October 1st 2008 and will initially be based on the 4th floor of the Sir James Black Centre in the College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee close to Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit (MRC-PPU) with which it will interact closely. The founding Director of SCILLS is Sir Philip Cohen, also the Director of the MRC-PPU.
To mark the first year or it's Centre status and the visit of the International Scientific Advisory Board,
the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression
is hosting a mini-Symposium and a preview of it's film Sharing Science.
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Professor Grahame Hardie, of the University of Dundee, has been selected for the prestigious 2008 Rolf Luft Award, which he will receive later this month at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
The award was created in 2000 in honour of Professor Rolf Luft, Sweden’s most famous endocrinologist, and is awarded by the famed Karolinska Institute and the Rolf Luft Foundation for Diabetes Research.
