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Prof Paul Wyatt in a DDU lab

Dundee joins ERA4TB international project fighting tuberculosis

The University of Dundee is among more than 30 international institutions joining forces to find new drug treatments for tuberculosis...

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Prizes for WCAIR members at School of Life Sciences Review 2019

Congratulations to all the prize winners at yesterday's School of Life Sciences Review 2019. The prizes are awarded annually to..

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Pulmonary TB: plain chest x-ray

A new effort to tackle tuberculosis

Researchers at the University of Dundee are aiming to make a breakthrough against tuberculosis. A $3million grant from the Bill..

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Playing Games at the Parasite Exhibition at NMS

A Night at the Museum

It's not every day that a project comes to life. This is especially true when that project has been over..

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Professor David Horn at 2019 ASTMH National Conference

David Horn receives William Trager Award at ASTMH Annual Meeting

WCAIR Deputy Director Professor David Horn has received a prestigious award in recognition of his role in global efforts to..

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David Gray sits at a lab bench. Photo by John Post

David Gray promoted to Professor Translational Biology

David Gray has been promoted to Personal Chair. He takes the title of Professor of Translational Biology which is in..

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Irene Hallybuton training for the powerlift squat. The photo shows Irene with the weights across her shoulders at the top of the squat. Photo taken by John Post.

Going for Gold

Next week WCAIR malaria researcher Irene Hallyburton is swapping the laboratories of Dundee for the powerlifting arena in St John’s,..

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Bloodstream form T. brucei. Image by Lucy Glover from Horn Lab

WCAIR Deputy Director receives £2.1 million Wellcome Investigator award

Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research Principal Investigator and Deputy Director Professor David Horn will receive a £2.1 million Investigator Award..

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Image shows the award presented to DDU as winners of MMV Project of the Year award 2018

DDU Malaria team win MMV Project of the Year 2018

Researchers from the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU)  have been awarded the “Project of the Year 2018” from Medicines for Malaria..

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Microscope image of trypanosomes stained for VEX proteins

Horn lab discovers a protein that makes random choices to generate cellular diversity

A team lead by WCAIR Principle Investigator Professor David Horn has identified a protein that makes random decisions to allow..

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