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Scientists at the University of Dundee and Harvard Medical School have identified the key targets of an enzyme that play a critical role in protecting the brain against the development of Parkinson’s disease.

 
Almost 250 newly qualified nurses and midwives have joined NHS Tayside, taking up roles across Tayside in the biggest ever intake of new recruits. 

21 October 2021 
 
A £50,000 prize is up for grabs for Scottish videogame designers who can successfully deploy game design and game technologies to develop a virtual environment that tests new approaches to increasing access to healthy food.

Collaborative research between the Universities of Dundee and Cambridge has uncovered how ‘assassin’ immune cells are able keep on killing as they hunt down cancer cells, repeatedly reloading their toxic weapons.

The University of Dundee is one of the best universities in the UK for producing successful spinouts, according to a new report.

Economic boost for Dundee and Glasgow.

More than 2,000 jobs will be created with Social Security Scotland over the next 12 months, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

24 September 2021

A start-up which helps businesses with user experience (UX) on physical and digital products has taken off during the pandemic after mentoring from Abertay University’s enterprise support unit Bell Street Ventures.

16th September 2021

14th September 2021

NHS 24 is delighted to be bringing over 300 new job opportunities to those living in and around Dundee.

As part of a planned expansion of services providing healthcare support to the people of Scotland, NHS 24 is launching a new contact centre in Dundee City Centre later this autumn.

Image: Mairi Gougeon MSP, Prof Colin Campbell and Iain Stewart MP breaking the ground for IBH and APGC

-Esports Scotland will host an epic four-day finals event at Dundee Contemporary Arts, with the nation’s top gamers set to compete for a share of a record £10,000 prize pot -

Top Scottish building services and construction contractor, McGill has announced that it will now accept cryptocurrency as payment for services delivered.

Dundee City Council leader John Alexander has been appointed as a member of the new Advisory Council driving Scotland’s economic transformation.

Unreal Engine is a 3D creation platform from Epic Games which allows users to create games, visual effects, computer arts and augmented and virtual reality applications.

The engine is used on several Abertay University degree courses including Game Design and Production and Computer Arts.

As we move out of restrictions, Perth and Kinross Council, Dundee City Council and Angus Council would like to gather information regarding the effects of Covid-19 on your business and the easing into the recovery period.

The University of Dundee has received £1 million to furbish a new centre that will foster the commercialisation of world-leading science while anchoring new biomedical companies and jobs in the city.

The University of Dundee has been ranked top in the UK for climate action in the 2021 edition of the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings.

Abertay University has joined forces with some of Dundee’s best-known institutions to enhance public engagement around the COP26 climate conference being held in Scotland this year.

The green jobs funding is being delivered as competitive funding calls, which are rounds of funding that open and close periodically for fixed amounts of time and from which the best projects will be chosen for support.

Multi-million pound waterfront development will be home to around 1,000 colleagues

BT has today announced plans to develop a brand new, multi-million pound contact centre in Dundee which will become the new home to around 1,000 employees.

IT is all around us. From interacting with your customers to processing invoices, IT probably plays a key role in your business.

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Dundee in UK project to upgrade Large Hadron Collider

(Attached Image shows the robot developed by the University of Dundee and partners, working inside a 74mm-aperture LHC beam screen. The robot moves autonomously along via inchworm steps while its head turns to perform the laser structuring. Image credit: CERN.)

€5 million boost for coronavirus drug search

The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) has received €5 million of funding to develop antiviral treatments for Covid-19 and future coronaviruses.

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Dundee has won in the UK’s first national Staycation Awards and is now officially the best city in Britain to enjoy a holiday, weekend away or short break witho

Dundee biotech company, Cellexus International Ltd, have increased their distributor network to bring their CellMaker bioreactor range to a global

The University of Dundee has opened a new joint research centre with North Eastern University (NEU), China, and welcomed almost 120 new students on to a new double degree in Biomedical Engineering which will be delivered as part of a Joint Educational Partnership (JEP) between the two institutions.

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