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Heartstart Discovery courses


Heartstart Discovery will continue to offer their free two-hour training sessions in emergency life support for members of the public in Tayside in February 2023. 
 

Spinout opportunity aims to create new Strep A vaccines

Photograph of Dr Helge Dorfmueller, from Dundee’s School of Life Sciences

A new University of Dundee spinout opportunity hopes to create vaccines against Strep A as well as novel vaccines for other human and animal diseases, while reducing our reliance on antibiotics. 

Repurposed drug shows potential as leukaemia treatment

A drug developed at the University of Dundee for a neglected tropical disease could be repurposed to treat leukaemia following Fast Track Designation by the U.S.