Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD), University of Dundee

A new translational research centre will bolster the University of Dundee’s world-leading position in a field of chemical biology that is revolutionising drug discovery, while helping to facilitate the development of high growth companies and create skilled jobs.

The Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation (CeTPD) will be housed at the Technopole site (pictured) adjacent to Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, with a fundraising target of £5 million being met by a mixture of public and private sources as well as University funds. The existing two-storey building will be fitted out with state-of-the-art facilities to allow Professor Alessio Ciulli and colleagues to expand their pioneering work, in partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim, in an area that has attracted billions of pounds of investment globally in the last five years.

The core team working on targeted protein degradation at the University will grow from around 25 currently to 50 when their labs are relocated to the new Centre, with further expansion planned as work in this exciting field of biomedical research develops.

The new facility will be created within the shell of the existing Cyclacel Laboratories building which will be extensively remodelled to provide the most up to date chemistry facilties in support of the cutting edge research.

Location / Dundee
Client / University of Dundee
Status / Completion 2022
Sector / Life Sciences