We're thrilled to announce our line up of confirmed speakers for our Symposium in May 2024! We invite you to apply via the link below. We hope you are as excited as we are for 3 days of science and Scottish fun!
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Congrats to
@Farnaby84
who has received a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award!
This award will:
- develop methods for small molecule mitophagy activation
- establish an induced proximity chemistry programme to address unmet medical needs in neurodegenerative diseases
We have been blown away by all the wonderful messages that we have received in response to our symposium! Thank you! It means a lot to all of us that our delegates had a fantastic time in Dundee and have left inspired to push forward the frontiers of TPD research!
#TPDFocus
We are delighted to officially launch our Twitter channel.
Follow us to keep up to date with the Centre - our research, activity, and opportunities to work with us.
Follow us on
@LinkedIn
as well:
#TargetedProteinDegradation
#PROTACS
We invite you to save the date! We will be hosting”Protein Degradation in Focus, a special symposium to celebrate the opening of CeTPD in Dundee” on 19-22 May 2024. Scientific co-organisers,
@alessiociulli
, Brenda Schulman,
@CraigMCrews
,
@val_spiteri
&
@CharlCrowe
!
Our new toy has arrived! The Ascend Mass Spec from
@thermofisher
Our senior proteomics scientist Manjula Nagala can't wait to get it installed and use it!
A pan-CeTPD team of structural biologist and chemists have published a pre-print revealing the novel CRBN construct, that can be expressed in E.coli without DDB1 and has been validated in biophysical and structural studies. Link:
I am thrilled to share that our story on Intramolecular Bivalent Glues has now been published in
@Nature
. This has been an incredible team effort alongside my co-leads Matthias Hinterndorfer and Angus Cowan, with the support and guidance from
@georg_e_winter
and
@alessiociulli
.
More symposium plans brewing- this time we have PhD student Tom Webb joining the team to help plan the career's panel that he'll be chairing at our TPD in Focus Symposium! T-23 days!
@alessiociulli
,
@CharlCrowe
&
@val_spiteri
We are delighted to receive £2 million to develop the next phase of CeTPD as part of the Technopole site as announced by Jacob Young, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, (Levelling Up) this week.
Levelling Up Fund to benefit University initiatives
And we're finally back! Kicking off the second session at
#TPDFocus
with an incredible talk by
@DanNomura
: "Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms." 🌟🔬
#TPDFocus
Fantastic turnout this morning for the Women in TPD networking breakfast held as part of the Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium.
@WomenInTPD
,
#TPDFocus
We have 300 goodie bags packed and ready to go for our delegates!
@alessiociulli
is clearly very excited about his new reusable shopping bag! Big thanks to the CeTPDers who helped pack these!
We are delighted to share that our Director Professor
@alessiociulli
is part of the Cancer Grand Challenges KOODAC team!
The team will use protein degradation strategies to target previously undruggable drivers of children’s cancers.
📢 Announcing five new global
#CancerGrandChallenges
teams! 📢
We're thrilled to announce five new teams, each receiving up to $25m over five years to tackle some of cancer's toughest challenges.
Meet the teams:
@CR_UK
@theNCI
Next, our "local CeTPD player"
@farnaby84
takes the stage with his talk: "Pursuing Targeted Protein Degradation for Investigating CNS Disease."
#TPDFocus
🧠
More symposium planning madness this evening this time we're joined by
@ales_salerno
CeTPD scientist who has been amazing and has formatted our conference booklets 😊
@alessiociulli
@val_spiteri
The
#TPDFocus
second day has just begun! Dive into Session 1: Therapeutic Development 🔬chaired by
@UoDCeTPD
director
@alessiociulli
! 🌟 Let the first session begin!
Meet our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium keynote speakers:
@CraigMCrews
PhD is the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale and will present the talk 'Tik-TAC-Toe: A Heterobifunctional for Every Need'
#TPDFocus
Happy New Year! Here at CeTPD we're gearing up for the year ahead and we're looking forward to welcoming the community to Dundee in May (19th-22nd)! If you haven't applied yet there's still time! Deadline for applications is the 15th of Jan!
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We are excited to be hosting Hanna and Johanna for the next two weeks as part of the Auricher Wissenschaftstage work experience program!
They'll experience some of our work first hand, running their own experiments and helping us with ours.
#InnovateCollaborateInspire
We had a great time welcoming
@drcmwoo
to
@UoDCeTPD
as part of our Seminar Series. We had a jam-packed two days with plenty of science and idea sharing, as well as a hike along the beautiful Fife coast and a CeTPD BBQ!
Some of our team are out in Barcelona for the event on Proximity-inducing pharmacology: Targeted protein degradation and beyond. Will Farnaby, Alessio Ciulli and Angus Cowan are speaking during this mornings first session.
#InnovateCollaborateInspire
#TargetedProteinDegradation
We're excited to welcome you all to Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium hosted by CeTPD. Come and register at WTB atrium now! Drinks reception will start at 5pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone one there!
#TPDFocus
Meet our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium keynote speakers:
Professor
@alessiociulli
PhD, Director of
@UoD_CeTPD
who will give a talk entitled 'We keep degrading! CeTPD’s past, present and future'
#TPDFocus
It's a sad week here
@UoDCeTPD
as we say goodbye to our Chemistry Associate Researchers from the ACBI team 😪
We wish them a great summer break, and all the best with their PhDs
@StrathChem
and
@GSK
, and for
@AdamPinto12
, back with the
@Farnaby
group
Great attendance for
@val_spiteri
&
@Mark_A_Nakasone
interactive talk, 'Applying
#cryoEM
to understand chemically induced ternary complexes for
#TPD
& Glues' as part our CeTPD Seminar Series. As always, the talks are followed by an opportunity to chat as well as eat pizza!
🚨 We are hiring a Chemist for the
@AlessioCiulli
/
@Boehringer
team at CeTPD.
Join our dynamic drug discovery team and help us find effective PROTACs for oncology targets.
Find out if you'd be right for this position and apply at
#ChemJobs
We are honoured that our AC-BI team have been nominated for the Cancer Research Horizons Further, Faster, Together Industry-Academia Award in recognition of the collaboration team's excellence and achievements.
#CeTPDCollaborate
#TargetedProteinDegradation
We approach the final talk of the day at
#TPDFocus
!
#AlejandroRojas
-Fernandez together with his
#alpaca
take the stage to present his work titled "Specific Proteolysis Mediated by a p97-Directed Proteolysis-Targeting Chimera (PROTAC)
Check out our recently published work on a new method for targeting SOCS2 with a phosphotyrosine-masked covalent ligand. To find out more about this fabulous work and it's impact on the field of TPD, you can also read the press release
Congrats team!
@alessiociulli
lab and colleagues develop phosphotyrosine-based covalent ligands of the E3 ligase SOCS2 using structure-based design. A pro-drug approach yields cell active inhibitors that block SOCS2 substrate recruitment
We were delighted to welcome
@GeorgeFreemanMP
, Minister of State for
@SciTechGovUK
to Dundee to officially open the CeTPD.
This gave us the opportunity to celebrate our journey so far, and also share our world-leading research and vision for the future of
#TPD
Dundee in the sunshine. Lovely day for a drone flight over CeTPD, SLS and the silvery Tay!
Thanks to Kean's for making sure our roof stood up to the recent storms.
Diane from our admin team, is hosting a bake sale fundrasier ate CeTPD to send her grandddaughter who is competiting in the Cheerleading Worlds with her team the Dundee Diamonds! CeTPDers are thrilled to be able to support thislocal team and have some cake too! Go Diamonds!
We are recruiting for 4 PI/Group Leaders.
We seek applications from individuals with research programmes within the field of
#TargetedProteinDegradation
Full details & to apply:
Get ready for some Intramolecular Bivalent Glues at
#TPDFocus
!
@_matthias_h
is about to rock the stage with his talk on "Targeted Protein Degradation via Intramolecular Bivalent Glues." 🔥🔬
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around CeTPD! Our wonderful admin team decorated the entryways, and we had a nice t(r)ee break this afternoon to decorate our common room now that winter has arrived 🥶
One month to go until our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium begins!
We can't wait to welcome you to Dundee.
Please use the symposium hashtag
#TPDFocus
to share your experiences with us during the event!
#TargetedProteinDegradation
🚨 Job position available!
We are hiring a cell biologist for the
@AlessioCiulli
@Boehringer
team at CeTPD, studying the effects our degraders have on cancer targets.
Sound like a good fit for you? Then apply to position UoD728
#BioPostDoc
#BioJobs
We've recently disclosed our work in collaboration with
@Boehringer
in developing pan-KRAS degraders. Congrats to all of the team members involved in this thorough study which is sure to help with the search for future treatments of KRAS driven cancers
We we're delighted to show
@djohnsonmsp
around CeTPD this week! Daniel was really intrigued by our work, asking
@alessiociulli
a lot of great questions during a tour of our labs.
Thanks for visiting us Daniel!
#InnovateCollaborateInspire
We celebrated Burns Night, with a Scottish & international pot luck dinner. Conner performed the traditional address to a Haggis & Sohini sang Phule Phule Dhole Dhole by Bengali poet Rabindranath Thakur, set to the tune of Robert Burns’ song Ye Banks an’ Braes o’ Bonnie Doon.
Our Director Alessio Ciulli is currently at the Karolinska Institute. We look forward to hearing about the forum and his other recent trips when he returns.
Meet our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium keynote speakers:
Prof. Brenda Schulman, Ph.D. from Research Department Molecular Machines & Signaling at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry will talk on 'Signaling through the ubiquitin-proteasome system.'
#TPDFocus
🚨 Postdoctoral position available!
Biology postdoctoral position available in the Farnaby group (
@farnaby84
) within CeTPD, to study induced proximity for treating CNS diseases.
Sound like it would suit you? Then apply to position UoD739 at
#BioPostDoc
📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣
We're excited to announce the 12 teams shortlisted for a
#CancerGrandChallenges
award. Each team has the chance to receive up to $25m to make radical progress against cancer’s toughest challenges.
Discover the teams:
@theNCI
@CR_UK
🚨 We are hiring a Senior Scientist in Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics at CeTPD!
If you are an experienced proteomics scientist, interested in working in a dynamic research environment, take a look at the opening and apply.
#InnovateCollaborateInspire
Good luck tonight to our AC-BI team who have been nominated for the Cancer Research Horizons Further, Faster, Together Industry-Academia Award in recognition of the collaboration team's excellence and achievements.
#CeTPDCollaborate
#TargetedProteinDegradation
#IEAwards2024
The wait is over! Congratulations to all the incredible individuals who made it to the
#IEAwards2024
shortlist!
🌟Stay tuned for a live unveiling of the winners, tomorrow 20 Mar at 6pm and for a memorable evening celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship & excellence.
The first day of our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium has arrived!
Today's schedule:
🕒 15:00 - 18:30: Registration
🕔 17:00 - 18:30: Networking Drinks
📍 Atrium, Wellcome Trust Building, School of Life Sciences
#TPDFocus
It was a pleasure to examine, with Ian Gilbert FRSE, Lexie Harris’ thesis work today
@UoDCeTPD
@UoDLifeSciences
on a cool, new PROTAC. Beautiful synthesis by Lexi, enabling development of a powerful new tool. Many congratulations to Lexie and the inimitable
@alessiociulli
FRSE
#MartinVolker
is about to take the stage, unveiling insights on "Homo-BacPROTAC-Induced Degradation of ClpC1 as a Strategy Against Drug-Resistant Mycobacteria."
As our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium approaches, here's a fact about Dundee.
😎 Bring sunglasses! Dundee is the sunniest city in Scotland!
Here's our Director
@AlessioCiulli
& Operations Lead Louise with Mike from
@FallonesPizza
being dazzled by the sun!
#TPDFocus
CeTPD has been awarded the bronze award in
@UCL
's Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework 🍃
Thanks to our Green Team and wonderful lab managers for helping to implement changes to make CeTPD greener! Now onto working towards the silver award 🥉
We had the privilege of sharing our science with the wider community this week, both at Menzieshill community centre, and in CeTPD with a visit from a group from Dunkeld. We loved the outreach opportunities and can't wait for the next ones!
#CeTPDInspire
#CeTPDOutreach
Two weeks to go until our Protein Degradation in Focus Symposium begins!
Please use the symposium hashtag
#TPDFocus
to share your experiences with us during the event!
#TargetedProteinDegradation
Lovely spring morning here at CeTPD! Made all the better by the mountain of fresh strawberries in our common room from local
@BalungieFarm
, courtesy of our Senior Biology Tech
@dmcassidy1
!
We are excited to be hosting the
#EUbOPEN
annual meeting in Dundee this September! Looking forward to hearing updates from all the partner sites and work package leaders on probe development and more.
#OpenScience
#EUbOPEN2024
Visit CeTPD as part of
@DoorsOpenDays
2023 on the 23rd September from 10 am - 2 pm!
We will have family friendly activities outside, and lab tours running during the day. To find out more, visit and sign up for the tours here
We were delighted to be recognised for our public engagement work over the past two yrs at the School Awards presentations. We have been on a productive journey from establishing the group, creating activities/events based on our research and engaging with a wide range of people.
@mrcppu
@WCAIRDundee
Brian Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research
🌟 Team of the Year was awarded to the
@UoDCeTPD
Outreach Team
Highly Commended:
@DDU_Dundee
Tuberculosis Team
🚨 We are hiring a Senior Scientist in Structural Biology/Biophysics for the
@AlessioCiulli
@Boehringer
team at CeTPD. You can help lead our team to ground-breaking discoveries!
Find out if you'd be right for this position and apply at
#BioJobs
Dundee science legend and "local lad",
#RonaldHay
, takes the stage at
#TPDFocus
with his talk: "Targeted Degradation of the Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein by Arsenic."
After a refreshing lunch break and a poster session, we're back with more excitement at
#TPDFocus
! 🚀 Kicking off the second session: Discovery Chemistry & Design I, chaired by
#DafyddOwen
.
Next is Valentina Spiteri
@val_spiteri
@dundeeuni
for their event on Targeted Protein Degradation for early career researchers
Exciting to see this meeting has already led to an international research placement at
@UoDCeTPD
Fantastic news to be see the University of Dundee named as top for supporting spinout businesses. Proud to see Amphista Therapeutics Limited, co-founded by our Director Professor
@alessiociulli
, named in the report as a contributor to Dundee's success!
#CeTPDInnovate
The University of Dundee has been named the UK’s best for supporting spinout businesses, according to industry-leading analysis by
@OctopusVentures
Companies specifically highlighted in the report include School spinouts
@exscientiaAI
&
@AmphistaThera
The grand finale of this second session is here at
#TPDFocus
! 🌟
@katmcphie
takes the stage with her work titled "Chemical Biology Approaches to Explore the Ligandability of TRIM E3 Ligases"
Registration for our Symposium in May will be open till the 15th of January 2024. Here's a reminder of our amazing line up! We're looking forward to welcoming the TPD community to Dundee!
Dates: 19th-22nd May 2024.
More information & apply here:
Last July, we announced a partnership with
@BioTechne
to commercialise technology developed
@dundeeuni
that enhances the understanding of undruggable diseases. BromoTAG was developed by Conner Craigon & Adam Bond (📸 ).
#ThrowbackThursday
#Collaborate