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We are recruiting for two (2) exceptional individuals to join us as Research Technicians within the Reproductive Medicine Research Group, be part of an interdisciplinary team on a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in collaboration with Lgenia and the University of Abertay (Dr Sean Brown). The aim of the project is to screen compounds with potential contraceptive activity, using donated human spermatozoa in various functional assays. Lgenia will lead the medicinal chemistry efforts and supply Dundee with compounds for testing. This is a fixed-term appointment until December 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team operating at the cutting edge of technologies and human systems working to develop a new nonhormonal contraceptive. You will be regularly interac...

The Centre for Forensic Medicine & Dentistry operates from the mortuary facilities provided by Police Scotland, located within the city centre, with clinical academic staff also retaining offices within the Dundee Dental School building on the City Campus. For over thirty years the Centre's primary role has been to provide impartial and independent forensic pathology and odontology services to the Scottish Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), and to help in the investigation of deaths reported to the Procurators Fiscal for Tayside through a contract served by the University. Subsidiary to its clinical commitments, the Centre is dedicated to the provision of high-quality medical education and specialist training in the fields of forensic medicine and dentistry and continues t...

We are recruiting for a Grade 7 Postdoctoral Researcher. This position is for 12 months.This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing research team at the University of Dundee. David Koss and his team are focused on understanding the emerging role of DNA damage in the development and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Specifically, this Postdoctoral Research Assistant role will build on our recent findings of novel nuclear alpha-synuclein (aSyn) pathology and elevated DNA damage in Dementia with Lewy bodies (Koss et al., 2025, Mol. Neurodegener.). The project will use post-mortem human brain tissue and chromatin immunoprecipitation in combination with Next-Gen genomic sequencing to 1) identify physiological genomic loci of aSyn binding and establish disease associated alteratio...