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Dundee is Tissue Bank founder
The University of Dundee/NHS Tayside is one of four collaborating centre sites where breast cancer tissue samples can be donated, along with blood samples and information about the donor’s breast cancer in a revolutionary new central bank.
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Dare to be Digital, claimed as the world’s leading computer game design competition, is now open for 2012 entries – a unique opportunity for students to win industry attention and their very own BAFTA.
Education of the heart
The Dalai Lama will deliver this year’s Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion and talk "Education of the Heart: a new world order of compassion" during his historic visit to Dundee, Inverness, and Edinburgh after several programmes in Manchester and London.
Games: social web, home and on-the-move
The £100,000 TIGA Games Contest launched today offers four £25,000 prizes to games developers to build a prototype, and use that to secure further development funding. Announced by Creative Industries Minister Ed Vaizey at the NESTA Investment Conference earlier this week, the funding comes from Abertay University’s Prototype Fund. Registration opens Monday. Deadline is 26 January 2012.
Portraits for the Future
A public lecture is to be given by artist Professor Calum Colvin as an introduction to both his work and a series of three Masterclass where he will discuss his innovative and intriguing approach to portraiture . The V&A at Dundee Masterclass is first in a series of V&A at Dundee masterclasses.
Fever cure: drugs, mosquito sterility or insect traps
Dundee Unversity Drug Discovery Unit has identified a compound curative in a mouse model of malaria at very low doses, when given orally. It is the drug route to fever cure, with other contenders being Oxford University spinoff Oxitec with a breeding sterility approach and Netherlands University of Wageningen Research Centre working baited mosquito traps (aka the Scottish midge trap).
From Justice ruling to beyond synthetic biology
A dark age returns to life sciences with last month's European Court of Justice ruling that it was not possible to patent inventions using human embryonic stem cells. But an ambitious research project to develop an in vivo biological cell-equivalent of a computer operating system will create a ‘re-programmable cell’ that could revolutionise synthetic biology, paving the way for scientists to create completely new and useful forms of life using a relatively straightforward approach.
Parkinson’s Disease – Past, Present and Future
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disorder which particularly affects the elderly. Since the disease was first described almost 200 years ago, there is still no cure or any treatment that can slow down the disease.
New fingerprinting techniques
New fingerprinting techniques being developed in Dundee will be discussed at a Café Science event.
Actions based on flawed research
Research used to compile the Government’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill is flawed, according to Dr Carlo Morelli, an economist at Dundee University's School of Business who worked with a team analysing the proposed legislation. At a recent Edinburgh lecture "A Streetcar named desire?" Glasgow University Professor of Public Policy and Governance Prof Iain Docherty claims Edinburgh chose the wrong tram line to build first and has condemns as a “travesty” the failure to dovetail the trams with improving the city centre for pedestrians. It would seem to raise a key question as to why the UK has such authoritative figures in Universities, whose advise appears never to be sought, or if offered accepted on such major issues?
Axis-Shield stormed by Alere
Axis-Shield, the Scottish-Norwegian medical diagnostics kit-maker, has noted the increased offer of 470p per share by Alere. After seeking feedback from a number of shareholder representing a material proportion of the shares, taking into account volatile economic and market backdrop, it believes Alere's revised acceptance condition of 50% will most likely be met, particularly in the light of their current shareholding of 29.9% of Axis-Shield's share capital.
Universities face merger
Academics warn the smaller Abertay University faces "huge redundancies" should it be forced into a merger with the older established Dundee University and concern over 'cherry picking' and job losses came as it was confirmed that the Scottish Government body had asked it to enter into merger discussions with Abertay. Former Professor Bernard King, Abertay's principal, would not have wanted to preside at such talks.
Accounting Convenor for Universities Scotland
Universities Scotland, the body which represents some 20 Scottish universities, has appointed Professor Seamus McDaid as its Convener for the period 1 August 2011 to 31 July 2012. Professor McDaid, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of Scotland sits on Universities Scotland's Executive Committee, is closely involved in the organisation's Funding Policy Group and leads Universities Scotland's work on efficiencies.
Abertay resolution: Bernard King Library
The University of Abertay Dundee wishes to confirm the retirement rather than the suspension of its Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bernard King CBE.
ATM and airport software growth
Glasgow-based Amor Group buys aerospace software FS Walker and Hughes and its Chroma Suite of airport management software while Cardtronics, the US-based ATM firm which operates over 37,000 cash machines worldwide, has acquired a further licence to incorporate the Dundee-based - i-Design firm's new software joono, into its operations,
Abertay reputation at risk: resolution needed
The Dundee Courier carries a major story on Abertay University and its current leadership crisis, in which the talents and skills of the University are being slowly melting away and it notices gags being placed on those leaving the institution.
Axis-Shield stand-off Alere
Axis-Shield with headquarters in Dundee and Oslo has "unanimously rejected a £230m cash takeover proposal made by US Massachusetts-based Alere, which has already absorbed over 60 diagnostic and health companies . The proposal was rejected on the basis "that it fundamentally undervalues the Company and its future prospects."
Pre-Raphaelites take a bow
An exhibition of work exploring Scottish links to the Pre-Raphaelites and an international academic conference examining the famous British art movement takes place at the University of Dundee this week from 7-10 July where leading Pre-Raphaelite scholars from the UK, France, Spain, Germany and the US will attend the conference which will explore, among many other topics, the Pre-Raphaelites in Dundee.
Crime writers in morgue campaign
Professor Sue Black and colleagues in the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) at Dundee – who feature in the BBC2 `History Cold Case” - are building a new morgue which will allow them to adopt the Thiel method of embalming. This gives surgeons, dentists, students and medical researchers a more realistic method of testing techniques, practising procedures and developing new equipment and approaches.
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