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\n \n\n \n11 March 2024
\n \n \n \nProfessor Dame Molly Stevens, John Black Professor of Bionanoscience and Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute, has been appointed as the new Academic Champion for Women and Diversity in Entrepreneurship.
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\n \n\n \n7 March 2024
\n \n \n \nThirteen early career researchers from Oxford, including four from Medical Sciences, were finalists at this year\u2019s STEM for BRITAIN event, held on Monday at the Houses of Parliament, with three winning awards in their categories.
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\n \n\n \n6 March 2024
\n \n \n \nThe American Diabetes Association (ADA) has announced this year's National Scientific and Health Care Achievement Award recipients.
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\n \n\n \n6 March 2024
\n \n \n \nDepartment of Oncology researcher Gulnar Abdullayeva has been honoured with the \"Presidential Award 2024 for Youth\" by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for her distinction in the field of Science.
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\n \n\n \n23 February 2024
\n \n \n \nDr. Jose Villar, Professor of Perinatal Medicine at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Women\u2019s & Reproductive Health, has been honoured with the prestigious 2024 March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award in Maternal-Fetal Nutrition.
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\n \n\n \n21 February 2024
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has announced today that Professor Sir John Bell will step down from his role as Regius Professor of Medicine on 31 March, to take up the new position of President of Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) Oxford. He will also become Co-CEO of EIT Global, alongside Dr David Agus.
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\n \n\n \n8 February 2024
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2023-2024 academic year.
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\n \n\n \n10 January 2024
\n \n \n \nSir Stewart Cole, KCMG, FRS has joined the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) as Executive Chair. The IOI is a world-leading centre of research, training, and education in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) based at the University of Oxford. It was established thanks to an unprecedented \u00a3100 million gift from INEOS, one of the world\u2019s largest chemical companies.
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\n \n\n \n2 January 2024
\n \n \n \nMembers of the Medical Sciences Division have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2024
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\n \n\n \n7 December 2023
\n \n \n \nWinners of the Medical Research Foundation\u2019s second Festive Science Image Competition, run in partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC), were announced on Tuesday. Three winners were selected, with one researcher from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) winning the second place and two researchers from the Department of Oncology were highly commended.
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\n \n\n \n7 November 2023
\n \n \n \nThe 2023 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards have been celebrated in a ceremony at Oxford Town Hall, on Tuesday 31st October. The ceremony was hosted by the Head of Division, Professor Gavin Screaton, the Associate Head of Division (Education), Professor Helen Christian, and the Head of Education Policy and Planning, Jane Dale.
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\n \n\n \n17 October 2023
\n \n \n \nEileen Parkes, Associate Professor in Innate Tumour Immunology in the Department of Oncology, will lead the expansion of the Oxford\u2019s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) programmes in early drug development and biomarker research.
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\n \n\n \n30 August 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Herman Waldmann FMedSci (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology) is one of four Oxford University researchers recognised today by the Royal Society.
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\n \n\n \n3 August 2023
\n \n \n \nThe work of Oxford University\u2019s Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research team (OxSTaR) has been recognised by a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE). The AdvanceHE award celebrates outstanding collaborative impact on teaching and learning and highlights the key role of teamwork in higher education.
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\n \n\n \n1 August 2023
\n \n \n \nThe National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Nuffield Department of Population Health has received renewed funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)\u2019s Policy Research Programme to continue running the Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care for the next five years from January 2024.
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\n \n\n \n31 July 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Sir Aziz Sheikh has been appointed to succeed Professor Richard Hobbs CBE as Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of Department from August 2024.
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology took up his role on 17 July 2023.
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\n \n\n \n17 July 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Lasker Foundation today announced the five winners of its 10th annual Lasker Essay Contest. The winning submissions were selected from hundreds of essays penned by biomedical graduate students and health professions trainees from 25 countries. The winning essayists explored unanticipated ethical issues encountered during their training and strategies used to address them.
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\n \n\n \n17 July 2023
\n \n \n \nYusuf Ben-Tarifite, a medical student at Green Templeton college, has been recognised with the highest accolade a young person can achieve for social action or humanitarian efforts \u2013 The Diana Award.
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\n \n\n \n3 July 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Knight will lead on the strategic development of the NIHR\u2019s infrastructure, working in partnership with infrastructure leaders.
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