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Research Retreat
Welcome and Introduction
Irene Leigh
Head of College
How does the University
describe itself?
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Translational
Professional
Creative
Contemporary
University Strategic goals
• 1. Attract high achieving students and those with high
potential
• 2. Provide the best student experience
• 3. Increase postgraduate activities
• 4. Promote research excellence and profitable partnerships
• 5. Contribute to knowledge transfer and the development of
Dundee and Scotland
• 6. Improve the responsiveness of support services
• 7. Ensure the Universities long term financial sustainability
College Research strategy
2002-7 Brian Burchell, Eric Wright
• Identified strength in Cancer, Cardiovascular and
Diabetes, Community Health and Informatics,
Neuroscience
• Active areas for development Human Genetics,
Medical Education Research,?Human
Development,? Ageing
• Central Research Services Unit
• Appoint high calibre research active staff especially
externally funded
• Investment in facilities
• New Medical Research Building
Looking back: Achievements
of the year
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New faces
New places
Fulfilling strategic goals:successes
Work in progress
New Professors 2008
• Professor of Anaesthesia: Tim Hales
• Professor of Neuro-imaging: Douglas Steele
• Professor of Pharmaco-genomics: Colin
Palmer
• Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics:
Peter Donnan
• 5 Clinical lecturers, 9 lecturers (education), 1
senior lecturer
New places
– CRC Opening July 2008
– TMRC building occupied
December 2008
– Centre Molecular Science (top
floor CRC)-funding obtained*
– Medical Education building
(phase 1)
Strategic goals: successes
Dundee Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD
programme
• Competitive; few in UK
• Dundee awarded 15 clinical
PhD positions over 3 years,
targeting expertise in basic
science research
• Core to future training
programmes commenced
October 2008
• Sara Marshall, Jerry
Lambert
Success in Research Governance
Jill Belch, Annie Langston
The Dundee Clinical Trials Collaborative Group
University of Dundee
Primary care
Clinical Trials
Network
Clinical
Research
Centre
NHS Tayside
Tayside
Clinical Trials Unit
RIS
HIC
Clinical
Researchers
*CVD
Diabetes
Cancer
Neuroscience
Inflammation etc
etc
TMRI
Ethics
Trust R&D
*Statistics/
clinical trial
design
Success in Research Support:
Research and Development Services
• Joint/Co-located office between NHS and
University
• Brings RIS staff to Ninewells
• Same space as NHS R/D
• Sign off of grants at Ninewells (Graeme
Findlay)
• Located in ground floor Nursing School
(moving to top floor when site moves for
nursing complete)
bench
Discovery
collaboration
clinic
Patient Care
Work in Progress: Dundee
CR-UK Centre
•Translational Oncology
•Clinical strengths
–Surgical Oncology
–Specialise in colon, breast and skin
cancer
•Nursing research
•Cancer prevention and population
research
•Training for non clinical and clinical PhD
•Public engagement
•Local fundraising (LEAD)
•Communication
Successes RAE 2008
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Total returned 154 WTE/ 261 academic and 229 research staff
UoA 5 Laboratory based clinical subjects (83.7)
5% 4*, 60*% 3* ranked 4th UK, 1st Scotland (2.6)
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U0A 8 Primary care and other community based clinical subjects (12.5)
• 5% 4*, 40% 3* ranked 12th UK, 2nd Scotland (2.3)
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UoA 10 Dentistry (29.92)
• 10% 4*, 40% 3* ranked 13th UK, 2nd Scotland (2.5)
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UoA 11 Nursing and Midwifery(16)
• 10% 4*, 40% 3* ranked 12th UK, 2nd Scotland (2.4)
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College of Life Science
UoA 14 Biological Sciences (65)
• 25% 4*, 40% 3* ranked 6th UK, 1st Scotland (2.8)
Looking forward
• Raising the game
• Developing new facilities
• Setting the strategy and defining
priorities
Recruitment: College role
• For research and education
• Vacant chairs 2009-10
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Child Health
Imaging/Radiology/SINAPSE
Pat McPherson Chair of Cancer Biology
Chair of Medical Education
Chair of Translational Medicine
• Targeted recruitment
– requires sustainability (4-5 years personal funding)
– Scottish Senior Clinical Fellowship programme
(March 2009)
– Academic training posts: CRF/Lecturer
– RC/AMRC Career development programmes
Mechanism of recruitment
• Chair replacement agreed
• Search Committee established with
chair reporting to Coll Rec Comm
• Targeted recruits CV to CoReCo
• Assessed for support
• Applications the supported by University
Develop College Research Strategy
2009-14
• Research Strategy workshops held
• School strategies being coordinated by
School Leads
• College Research strategy group to agree
priorities (theme based)
• RAE articulated strategic areas of research
as key themes
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Cancer
Neuroscience
Translational Medicine
Inflammation and immune response
Population science
Genetics/genomics
Still have University Strategic targets
• Strategic targets (2009-10)
– Increase Research Income (17 million)
– Increase Research Overheads (1.8 million)
– Increase knowledge transfer
– Increase Postgraduate student numbers (180
Rpgs)
– Introduce Performance management
– Generate surplus income (3%)
College Research Strategy
Targets 2009-10
• New recruits to strengthen
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Translational Medicine
Imaging: esp Clinical Imaging Centre
Cancer Research Centre
Epithelial biology and Genetics inc biostatistics
Population science
• Develop Academic Health Science Centre in Tayside
• Build
– Centre Molecular Medicine (Wellcome Trust),
– Centre for pharmacogenomics and population genetics (Ninewells
Cancer Campaign)
– Neuroscience labs
– Medical education developments
– Postgraduate student centre
• Fundraising
– To develop new Laboratory research building (£20 million )
Build links across University
• University wide Centres
• Centre for environmental change and human resilience
• Research Collaborations with CLS
• Cancer Centre/Translational Oncology Institute
• Division of Molecular Medicine
• MRC Developmental funding Pathway
• Anatomy and Surgical Skills
• Research Collaborations with CASE
• ImSaT
• Mathematical Biology
• ?Computer Vision
• Art in Medicine
• Research Collaborations with CASS
• Behavioural Neuroscience/psychology
• Social Science