The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee conducts research into the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying human health and disease.
[4] The growth of the department was supported by Principal Adam Neville who redirected funds from other areas of the university.
Alongside his appointment of Philip, Peter also recruited David Lilley, Grahame Hardie and Chris Higgins.
The building originally housed the Divisions of Gene expression, Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Parasitology that were affiliated with the Department of Biochemistry, while the Division of Cell and Development Biology was affiliated with the Department of Anatomy and Physiology.
[13][14] It was named after the Nobel Prize winning Scottish pharmacologist and former University of Dundee Chancellor, Sir James W. Black.
[15] Finally, in 2014 under the leadership of Sir Mike Ferguson, the Discovery Centre for Translational and Interdisciplinary Research was opened by Paul Nurse[16] Undergraduate teaching is currently based in the Carnelley Building on City Campus.
The school contains a number of different divisions, centres and units which address different research themes: Undergraduate teaching focusses on two degree streams, Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
These include: In 1998, Sir Philip Cohen and Peter Downes founded the Division of Signal Transduction Therapy (DSTT).
Working in partnership with industry the Unit has developed pre-clinical drug candidates for malaria[33] and visceral leishmaniasis.