2021 marked 15 years of the DDU and the report shows there is plenty to celebrate with the delivery of 4 preclinical candidates, securing over £100 million in research funding, growing to 130 translational scientists and enabling the spin-out of..
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Genetic Transformation of Candida auris via Homology-Directed Repair Using a Standard Lithium Acetate Protocol
Gustavo Bravo Ruiz & Alexander Lorenz Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2517. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2417-3_8 Abstract Reverse..
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Fabio Tamaki, Fabio Fisher, Rachel Milne, Fernando Sánchez Román Terán, Natalie Wiedemar, Karolina Wrobel, Darren Edwards, Hella Baumann, Ian H...
Read MoreControl of Variant Surface Glycoprotein Expression by CFB2 in Trypanosoma brucei and Quantitative Proteomic Connections to Translation and Cytokinesis
Gustavo Bravo Ruiz , Michele Tinti , Melanie Ridgway, David Horn ASM Journals, mSphere, Vol. 7, No. 2, e00069-22 DOI:..
Read MoreOligo targeting for profiling drug resistance mutations in the parasitic trypanosomatids
Simone Altmann, Eva Rico, Sandra Carvalho, Melanie Ridgway, Anna Trenaman, Hannah Donnelly, Michele Tinti, Susan Wyllie, David Horn. Nucleic Acids..
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PDRA-Development of Automated Plate Based Chemistry
Job Reference: SLSC1118
Salary: £33,309 – £40,927
Closing Date: Monday, September 12, 2022
The Synthetic Methodologies Team at the DDU has a diverse remit including technology development, reaction optimisation, late stage functionalisation, biotransformation, compound management, flow, process, scale up and medicinal chemistry. The team supports medicinal chemistry efforts by delivering new technology and synthetic approaches to the medicinal chemistry teams taking synthetic chemistry development off the critical path.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced synthetic organic chemist to join the team. With first class synthetic and organisation skills the successful candidate will have the chance to join the dynamic, multidisciplinary Drug Discovery Unit and enhance synthesis at…
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Senior Computational Chemist
Ref: SLSC1117
Salary: Grade 8 (£42,149 – £50,296)
Closing Date: Friday 2nd September, 2022
The DDU are recruiting for a highly motivated and expert Senior Computational Chemist to join our Computational Chemistry team. At grade 8 of the University pay scale (currently £42,149 – £50,296), this is a high responsibility role that offers you the opportunity to play an influential role in shaping the direction of the Computational Chemistry team and to contribute to the DDU drug discovery effort working collaboratively with medicinal chemists, structural biologists, biologists and biophysicists. It also provides an opportunity to:
- be a part of a world-leading university-based drug discovery group
- contribute to developing in-depth…
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Head of Computational Chemistry, Drug Discovery Unit.
Job Reference: SLSC1111
Salary: Please refer to advert
Closing Date: Friday, September 9, 2022
Tenured position at Reader/ Professorial Level
We are seeking an experienced computational chemist and drug discoverer to be Head of Computational Chemistry in the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) at the University of Dundee.
This is an exciting position to develop novel computational chemistry methodology (accessing our screening, structural and DMPK data) and apply it to live drug discovery programmes in infectious diseases affecting Low and Middle Income Countries and innovative targets in a range of human diseases.
This is a substantive leadership post in a highly collaborative environment. The successful applicant will be part…
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