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Sir Marc Feldmann awarded the 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science
Awards and Appointments General Research
23 June 2020
Recognised for the part he played in the discovery of anti-TNF therapy, Dr Feldmann is now exploring whether the antibody can be effective for COVID-19.
NDORMS professor awarded prestigious Carol Nachman prize for Rheumatology
Awards and Appointments General Research
18 June 2020
Christopher Buckley, Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology at the University of Oxford and Birmingham, has been awarded the 2020 Carol Nachman prize for Rheumatology.
Oxford researchers awarded funding to unlock disease biology
Awards and Appointments General Research
10 June 2020
Oxford Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is a key member of a new EUbOPEN consortium which has been awarded funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative to develop openly available chemical tools for understanding human biology.
Eurofins Foundation and SENSE Foundation Brussels launch awards for students across the sciences
Awards and Appointments General
3 June 2020
The University of Oxford is delighted to announce a joint gift from the Eurofins Foundation and SENSE Foundation Brussels to support students in the Medical Sciences and Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Divisions. The donation will lead to the creation of Eurofins Awards for undergraduate and postgraduate students, which will be granted over the course of the next three years.
The Duke of Westminster donates £1m to Oxford University’s COVID-19 mental health research
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
29 May 2020
Hugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, has donated £1m towards Oxford University’s COVID-19 mental health research programmes. This is part of the £10m donation announced by the Westminster Foundation last month to support the national COVID-19 relief effort.
Gero Miesenböck receives Shaw Prize 2020
Awards and Appointments General
21 May 2020
Professor Gero Miesenböck, the Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, is one of three scientists awarded The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine.
Funding and manufacturing boost for UK vaccine programme
Awards and Appointments Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
18 May 2020
The Government has announced £65.5 million of new funding for the vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford as coronavirus vaccine trials accelerate.
Six Oxford professors honoured by the Academy of Medical Sciences
Awards and Appointments General
13 May 2020
The Academy of Medical Sciences, the independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science, has today announced the election of fifty new Fellows, including six academics from the University of Oxford.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funding to two Oxford teams to support inflammation research
Awards and Appointments General Research
30 April 2020
Two different teams from the Medical Sciences Division have received a share of $14 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as one of 29 projects that will explore emerging ideas regarding the role of inflammation in disease.
Oxford Professors honoured by the Royal Society
Awards and Appointments General
29 April 2020
Six Oxford University academics, including three from the Medical Sciences Division, have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Two Medical Sciences professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Awards and Appointments General
29 April 2020
Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology) and Professor Fiona Powrie (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences) are two of 120 new members and 26 new international members newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Five Oxford COVID-19 projects receive UKRI funding
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
17 April 2020
Five projects from the Medical Sciences Division are amongst twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus which have been funded by the UK government, announced today
BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
7 April 2020
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
Success for the Oxford Academic Health Partners
Awards and Appointments General
2 April 2020
The Oxford Academic Health Partners (OAHP) is delighted to have been designated as an NIHR/NHSE/I Academic Health Science Centre following the recent competitive designation process. The designation comes into effect from 1 April 2020 and is for an initial period of five years.
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator awards $20 million in initial grants to fund clinical trials
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
30 March 2020
Researchers at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and two institutions in the US (University of Washington and La Jolla Institute for Immunology) receive grants from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale initiative launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard to speed the development of and access to therapies for COVID-19.
Oxford's COVID-19 research receives government funding
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
24 March 2020
Three Oxford-based COVID-19 projects are among the first to benefit from a share of £20 million in government investment.
John Harris recognised for 50 years of service to the Department of Pharmacology
Awards and Appointments General
12 March 2020
John Harris has just been awarded an honorary MA in recognition of 50 years of service to the Department of Pharmacology and reflects on highlights over the past five decades
Dr Nessa Carey joins Medical Sciences as Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
5 March 2020
Dr Nessa Carey will lead the strategic development and implementation of the Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) programme in Medical Sciences, laying the foundation of a world-class innovation support ecosystem capable of accelerating the translation of world-leading research into innovative therapies, business and commercial products.
MRC WIMM appoints new Director
Awards and Appointments General
4 March 2020
We are delighted to announce that Professor KJ Patel has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford.
MSD projects awarded Public Engagement Seed Funding
Awards and Appointments General
20 February 2020
Nine projects from the Medical Sciences Division have received funding in the latest round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund for innovative projects to engage the public with medical research.