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WCAIR 3 year Report

The Wellcome Centre for Anti-infectives Research was established in April 2017. We now invite you to share our achievements over the last 3 years. The report highlights key activities across our themes of Research, Training and Public Engagement. The report contains..

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Dr Joana Faria awarded Sir Henry Dale fellowship

Joana Faria, a postdoctoral researcher in David Horn’s Lab has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship funded by the..

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Dundee research to help eliminate Sleeping Sickness

Almost half a million rapid diagnostic tests developed from research at the University of Dundee will be donated with the..

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Prof David Gray honoured in HM Queen’s Birthday honours

David Gray, Head of Biology and Professor of Translational Biology at the University’s Drug Discovery Unit, has been given a..

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Publications

Synthesis of a Series of Diaminoindoles

James S. Martin, Claire J. Mackenzie, and Ian H. Gilbert J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 17, 11333–11340 , https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c00652 Abstract..

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Ligand binding: evaluating the contribution of the water molecules network using the Fragment Molecular Orbital method

Iva Lukac, Paul G. Wyatt, Ian H. Gilbert, Fabio Zuccotto J Comput Aided Mol Des (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10822-021-00416-3 Abstract Water molecules play..

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Utilizing thermal proteome profiling to identify the molecular targets of anti-leishmanial compounds

Victoriano Corpas-Lopez, Susan Wyllie. STAR Protocols,2021, Volume 2, Issue 3, 100704  doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100704. Abstract Here, we detail our optimized protocol for..

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An essential, kinetoplastid-specific GDP-Fuc: β-D-Gal α-1,2-fucosyltransferase is located in the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei

Giulia Bandini, Sebastian Damerow, Maria Lucia Sempaio Güther, Hongjie Guo, Angela Mehlert, Jose Carlos Paredes Franco, Stephen Beverley, Michael A..

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Vacancies

Medicinal Chemistry Trainer- WCAIR

Job Reference: SLSC0918
Grade 7 (£33,309 – £40,927)
Closing date: 26 September 2021

The Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) Training programme is seeking a personable and enthusiastic individual to take up the post of a Medicinal Chemistry Trainer. WCAIR builds on world-leading work at the University of Dundee, including within the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), to find new drugs to treat diseases of the developing world such as malaria, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease.

The WCAIR Training programme has been developing a range of educational activities to support scientists from low-middle income countries working in the field of drug discovery.  These activities range from individual training programmes…

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