Lasers: Illuminating New Frontiers in Medicine – 6pm, Wednesday 13th January.
When lasers were invented in 1960 they were called “a solution looking for a problem”. Since then we have seen lasers find uses in nearly every part of our lives, in supermarket barcode scanners, CD players, corrective eye surgery and…
Sexy Biophysics: Exploiting Ultrasound for Gene Therapy. 7pm 29th June
Getting the right molecules (usually pharmaceuticals) to the right place, and at the right time is the critical problem in drug delivery. There are many challenging barriers to be overcome along the route to the target, which is usually a…
Stem Cells and Personalised Medicine – 6pm, Wednesday 13th May
Will Stem Cell research change medicine as we know it? But what are Stem Cells and how are they made? At 6pm on Wednesday 13th May, Dr Paul Andrews, from the Drug Discovery Unit at the University of Dundee, hosted a discussion…
Medical Robotics – 27th October 2008
Monday 27th October saw the second successful talk of this year’s season of Cafe Science Dundee talks at the Borders Bookshop in Dundee. Prof. Andreas Melzer from the University of Dundee presented a talk and discussion on Medical Robotics. Prof. Melzer is…
Genes and Diabetes: fat or fiction?
This months Cafe Science will be the last of our first season, but we shall be starting up again in September. On Monday 30th June, Dr Ewan Pearson will give a short talk called ‘Genes and Diabetes: fat or fiction?‘…
Cancer Prevention
Our 3rd Cafe Science will explore the issues around cancer prevention. Prof. Annie Anderson will be giving a short talk entitled, Cancer Prevention: Nutrition and Physical Activity. In the mean time you can click on her name and find out…
First event: 28th Jan 2008
Our first event will kick off at 7:00pm on the 28th January 2008. Professor Inke Nathke will treat us to a short talk entitled ‘From molecules to tumours: Colon cancer from a biologist’s perspective‘. Admission is free, just turn up….