Refinement of the “Bump-and-Hole” Approach
Well done for this tour-de-force study to our BBSRC EastBio PhD student Andrew, to Kwok-Ho, Andrea, and to former Lab members Michael, Lars and Matt -with important contributions from our collaborators too! Well done for this tour-de-force study to our BBSRC…
New Publications
Two new papers out! Check this out to know more about them! Our new paper ‘Leveraging dual-ligase recruitment to enhance degradation via a heterotrivalent PROTAC’ which spearheaded by former lab member Adam Bond, along with our collaborators Miquel Muñoz I…
CeTPD will expand following the award of the Levelling Up Fund
The Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) is honoured to receive £ 2 million from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities’ Levelling Up Partnership. After visiting the University and the CeTPD, Jacob Yung, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of…
Funding news as University of Dundee’s CeTPD is part of the Cancer Grand Challenges KOODAC team
We are delighted to share the news that we are part of the Cancer Grand Challenges KOODAC team to develop new drugs for tackling solid tumours in children. The team will be led by Yael Mossé, MD, Professor of Pediatrics…
University of Dundee and Boehringer Ingelheim secured the prestigious Cancer Research Horizons (CRH) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award 2024
The Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation, at the University of Dundee, and Boehringer Ingelheim research collaboration (ACBI PROTAC Team) have secured the prestigious Cancer Research Horizons (CRH) – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards 2024 in the category Further, Faster, Together (Industry-Academia Collaboration). The CRH…
“Protein sandwich” could transform cancer drug discovery
A research team at the University’s Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) led by Professor Alessio Ciulli, in collaboration with the research group of Dr Georg Winter at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CEMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna,…
School of Life Sciences hosts “The First Scottish cryo-EM symposium”
A one day symposium for the Scottish cryo-EM community took place on 30 November 2023 The First Scottish cryo-EM symposium attracted over 90 participants from across academia and industry. The event provided the opportunity to hear updates from the rapidly growing community…
University of Dundee and Amphista Therapeutics win the PraxisAuril KE Awards 2023 for Commercialization Achievement of the Year
On Thursday 23rd November Alessio joined David McBeth, VP for Entreprise and Economic Transformation at Dundee, and colleagues from the University’s RIS and Amphista therapeutics in Leeds city centre for the 2023 PraxisAuril KE awards ceremony. The PraxisAuril KE Awards…
‘Trojan Horse’ chemical tool allows researchers to target ‘undruggable’ proteins
‘Trojan Horse’ chemical tool allows researchers to target ‘undruggable’ proteins University of Dundee researchers have developed a new molecule that is able to target and bind to a protein class previously considered undruggable by using a masking technique to enter…
UK Science Minister formally opens CeTPD
The University of Dundee has today (Oct 26, 2023) celebrated the official opening of its multi-million pound Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD), by UK Science Minister George Freeman who met researchers behind pioneering studies of potential ways to treat…