Academia-pharma collaboration attracts £14.4million funding in the UK to accelerate drug discovery
Wed, 05/16/2012 - 09:20
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 development of new drug treatments for major global diseases.
The consortium, called the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT), includes six of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies -- AstraZeneca...
UK health system not designed to cope with rising numbers of people with multiple health problems - Dundee led research
Thu, 05/10/2012 - 12:30New 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 systems in the UK and other developed countries were not devised to deal with this scenario and must be radically changed to cope.
The study was led by Bruce Guthrie, Professor of Primary Care Medicine at Dundee University, Stewart Mercer, Professor of Primary Care Research at Glasgow University and lead for the Scottish School of Primary Care research programme on multiple morbidity, Graham Watt, Professor of...
Fellowships of the Academy of Medical Sciences for Dundee cancer researchers
Thu, 05/10/2012 - 12:25
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 Chromosome Maintenance and Deputy-Head of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression within the University's College of Life Sciences, while Professor Alessi is Director of the Medical Research...
Dundee cash to quit smoking scheme 'a success', reports BBC
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 11:55
An NHS scheme offering people money to stop smoking has been a success, according to health professionals, reports BBC.
NHS Tayside said the quit4u scheme, which has finished its two-year national pilot, has helped thousands to quit the habit. Participants in deprived areas of Dundee were given £12.50 a week if they passed a breath test. Smokers on the scheme had a one-month quit rate of 49.9% compared with the national average of 33.7%.
Over a three-...
The UK Department of Health and medical charities publish new new guidelines on research funding
Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:25
The Department of Health and the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) announce the publication of new guidelines for attributing the costs of health and social care research and development (AcoRD).
AcoRD establishes a mechanism for the Department to meet some of the costs of charity-funded research in the NHS, for charities that are members of AMRC. The agreement...
