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Drug Discovery Africa 2025

Registration for the Drug Discovery Africa  conference is now open. We invite you to join us at the University of Ghana, Accra from 12-14th March 2025. Our aim is showcase African led drug discovery research against endemic infectious diseases. The..

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WCAIR Researchers included in team awarded DNDi Project of the Year 2024

WCAIR Professor Susan Wyllie and colleagues have been recognized by DNDi as part of the team awarded DNDi 2024 Project..

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Dundee discoveries could transform cryptosporidiosis treatment

Scientists at WCAIR have made a significant breakthrough in the quest to eradicate a parasite that blights millions of lives...

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Drug Discovery Unit Dundee and Novartis join forces to discover new drugs for malaria and future viral pandemics

The Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) initiated collaboration this summer on two projects with the Biomedical Research division of Novartis and is extremely..

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Publications

A novel 4-aminoquinoline chemotype with multistage antimalarial activity and lack of cross-resistance with PfCRT and PfMDR1 mutants

Letícia Tiburcio Ferreira, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Luis Carlos Salazar Alvarez, John Okombo, Juliana Calit, Diana Fontinha, Eva Gil-Iturbe, Rachael Coyle,..

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Rational Exploration of 2,4-Diaminopyrimidines as DHFR Inhibitors Active against Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium avium, Two Emerging Human Pathogens

Matheus Andrade Meirelles, Vitor M. Almeida, Jaryd R. Sullivan, Ian de Toledo, Caio Vinicius dos Reis, Micael Rodrigues Cunha, Rachel..

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Post-transcriptional reprogramming by thousands of mRNA untranslated regions in trypanosomes

Anna Trenaman, Michele Tinti, Richard J. Wall & David Horn Nat Commun 15, 8113 (2024). Abstract Although genome-wide polycistronic transcription places..

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ResMAP-a saturation mutagenesis platform enabling parallel profiling of target-specific resistance-conferring mutations in Plasmodium

Richard J Wall , Stuart A MacGowan , Irene Hallyburton , Aisha J Syed , Sowmya Ajay Castro , Gourav..

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If you are interested in our training scheme please read the information in our Training section.

Information on PhD studentships can be found through the School of Life Sciences PhD site

The School of Life Sciences also runs a number of Masters courses.



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