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Launch of Dundee Diabetes Research Centre
Apr 21, 2005, 16:55, Reviewed by: Dr.
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The Dundee Diabetes Research Centre has been set up for a period of 5 years. Its main role will be to encourage and facilitate interactions between basic and clinical Diabetes research. The Centre will help provide funds to initiate pilot collaborative studies between research groups and also to enable students to attend courses or visit other labs to acquire new skills and techniques that can be subsequently set up at the University.
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By University of Dundee, UK,
The diabetes laboratories at the University of Dundee have been awarded Centre status to promote communication amongst the research and clinical groups and to raise public awareness of their work.
The Dundee Diabetes Research Centre is a joint venture between the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, which currently hosts over 25 research teams that have a shared interest in Diabetes research, ranging from the study of single molecules to complex clinical studies.
The launch of the Dundee Diabetes Research Centre reinforces the city's standing as one of the world's key hubs of research into the disease.
The Dundee Diabetes Research Centre has been set up for a period of 5 years. Its main role will be to encourage and facilitate interactions between basic and clinical Diabetes research. The Centre will help provide funds to initiate pilot collaborative studies between research groups and also to enable students to attend courses or visit other labs to acquire new skills and techniques that can be subsequently set up at the University. Another goal of the Dundee Diabetes Research Centre will be to participate in the recruitment of internationally renowned Diabetes researchers to work at University of Dundee. The Centre will support the costs required for networking of diabetes researchers, an annual meeting, an invited prominent International seminar speaker and the establishment of a dedicated website for the scientists. The annual meetings will allow current research to be presented and discussed, to maximize collaboration between the different groups and provide a platform for clinicians and researchers to be kept informed of relevant basic research going on in Dundee.
The Dundee Diabetes Research Centre will be launched on Monday, 18 April with a lecture from Professor Gerald Shulman, Yale Medical School, New Haven on "Cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance in humans" at 1 pm in the MSI Small Lecture Theatre.
The Director of the Centre is Professor Dario Alessi, an internationally recognised diabetes researcher in the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the School of Life Sciences and Dr Calum Sutherland, a Diabetes UK Senior Fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in Ninewells Hospital, is the Assistant Director.
On the establishment of the Centre Professor Alessi said: "There is a tremendous amount of important and exciting research into all aspects of Diabetes being undertaken at the University of Dundee. We hope that the creation of the Dundee Diabetes Research Centre will stimulate interactions between basic and clinical researchers which will further enhance the quality of the work that is taking place". 
- University of Dundee, UK
dundee.ac.uk
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