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Drug Discovery Africa 2025

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 conference will bring together leading drug discovery researchers from across..

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Alan Fairlamb honoured for an outstanding career by the British Society for Parasitology

This years’ British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Trypanosomiasis & Leishmaniasis Seminar recognised Alan Fairlamb as one of the giants of..

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RNAs compete to make a coat for parasitic African trypanosomes

A team at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee has shown that RNA transcripts from a large gene..

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Manu De Rycker, Head of Translational Parasitology

Dr Manu De Rycker recognised with global honour

Dr Manu De Rycker, a Principal Investigator at WCAIR , has been named as the newest winner of the WH..

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Publications

A non-coding role for trypanosome VSG transcripts in allelic exclusion

Douglas O Escrivani, Sebastian Hutchinson, Michele Tinti, Jane E Wright, Catarina A Marques, Joana R C Faria, Anna Trenaman, David Horn Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 53, Issue 19,..

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Application of a mouse model humanized for cytochrome P450–mediated drug metabolism to predict drug-drug interactions between a peptide and small molecule drugs

Yury Kapelyukh, Charlotte Gabel-Jensen, Alastaire Kenneth MacLeod, Kevin-Sebastien Daniel Coquelin, Laste Stojanovski, Laura Frame, Amy Tavendale, Colin J. Henderson, Kevin..

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Discovery of a CNS active GSK3 degrader using orthogonally reactive linker screening

Andreas Holmqvist, Nur Mehpare Kocaturk, Christina Duncan, Jennifer Riley, Steven Baginski, Graham Marsh, Joel Cresser-Brown, Hannah Maple, Kristiina Juvonen, Gajanan..

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Protocol for a human placental explant model to study acute responses to pathogens

Elias R. Ruiz-Morales, Regina Hoo, Ross F. Waller, Marcus C.S. Lee, David Fernandez-Antoran , Iva Kelava , Roser Vento-Tormo STAR..

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Vacancies

Joining the team at WCAIR

All jobs are advertised through the University of Dundee jobs portal, https://www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/jobs  and applications must be made through this site. You can also look out for jobs advertised via the DDU LinkedIn account .

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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