£3.5 Million Awarded To Dundee University Life Sciences Programme
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The University of Dundee and three of its researchers from the School of Life Sciences have just been awarded grants to the tune of £3.5 million from the European Research Council (ERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
The college is in fact top in the UK for biological sciences according to the Research Excellence Framework, while it was ranked 28th in the world last month in terms of impact of scientific research in the CWTS Leiden Rankings.
Professor Pauline Schaap received an advance grant of £1.7 million to explore cell specialisms, professor Paul Birch received grants totalling £650,000 to continue his research into potato blight, and Dr Constance Alabert was awarded £1.1 million to investigate the impact of DNA replication on epigenetics.
“The prestigious grant from the ERC will provide me with the funding I need to carry my ambitious five-year plan. It will also help me to attract best national and international talents to work in my lab,” Dr Alabert commented.
This comes after the 2017 Life Sciences Strategy was revealed, suggesting how industry turnover in the life sciences sector in Scotland could be grown to £8 billion by the year 2025. Since 2010, the sector has been expanding significantly, with over 37,000 people employed across some 700 different organisations.
And in the last three years or so, some £300 million has been invested across the industry from companies such as GSK, Piramel Healthcare, Capsugel, ThermoFisher Scientific, Johnson Matthey and Quotient.
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