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Getting to Know- Beatriz Baragaña

Dr Beatriz Baragaña leads Apicomplexan portfolio at the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) , School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. (Apicomplexa is the scientific name given to the family of parasites to which Plasmodia the species of parasite which causes..

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Science@Home with Dundee Science Centre

There have been lots of changes during the Covid-19 pandemic. One thing that has remained the same is how busy..

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€5 million boost for coronavirus drug search

The Dundee Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), embedded with WCAIR,  has received €5 million of funding to develop antiviral treatments for..

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The Hamilton machine at The Drug Discovery Unit at The University of Dundee © Sophie Gerrard

New Funding to find COVID-19 treatments

The Universities of Glasgow and Dundee have been awarded £225,000 to rapidly screen for potential COVID-19 treatments. The project is..

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Publications

Development of a High-Throughput Screening Assay to Identify Inhibitors of the Major M17-Leucyl Aminopeptidase from Trypanosoma cruzi Using RapidFire Mass Spectrometry

Maikel Izquierdo*, De Lin, Sandra O'Neill, Martin Zoltner, Lauren Webster, Anthony Hope, David W. Gray, Mark C. Field, Jorge González-Bacerio*..

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Suramin exposure alters cellular metabolism and mitochondrial energy production in African trypanosomes

Martin Zoltner, Gustavo D Campagnaro, Gergana Taleva, Alana Burrell, Michela Cerone, Ka-Fai Leung, Fiona Achcar, David Horn, Sue Vaughan, Catarina..

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Discovery of an Allosteric Binding Site in Kinetoplastid Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase

Leah S. Torrie, David A. Robinson, Michael Thomas, Judith V Hobrath, Sharon M Shepherd, John M. Post, Eun-Jung Ko, Rafael..

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Discovery and Optimization of a Compound Series Active against Trypanosoma cruzi, the Causative Agent of Chagas Disease

Justin R. Harrison, Sandipan Sarkar, Shahienaz Hampton, Jennifer Riley, Laste Stojanovski, Christer Sahlberg, Pia Appelqvist, Jessey Erath, Vinodhini Mathan, Ana..

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