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\n \n\n \n23 November 2021
\n \n \n \nFiona Powrie, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford has been selected as the next Deputy Chair of Wellcome\u2019s Board of Governors.
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\n \n\n \n14 October 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Faculty of Public Health (FPH) has awarded its prestigious Alwyn Smith Prize to Professor Sir Peter Horby (Nuffield Department of Medicine) for 2020/2021 in recognition of his outstanding service to public health as a global leader in epidemic science.
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\n \n\n \n11 October 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford - Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) Fellowships Programme continued to demonstrate significant progress over the last year, despite the challenges associated with the global pandemic, including restricted lab access and work from home guidance. Today, we are pleased to announce six new Oxford-BMS Fellowships for 2021.
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\n \n\n \n6 October 2021
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Trish Greenhalgh (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences) who has been Highly Commended in the O\u00b2RB Excellence in Impact Awards 2021.
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\n \n\n \n4 October 2021
\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year, including eight from the Medical Sciences Division.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nFor the second year in a row, The British Medical Journal have selected a publication co-authored by Oxford University researchers for their prestigious UK Research Paper of the Year Award. This award recognises original UK research that has the potential to contribute significantly to improving health and healthcare.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in human consciousness.
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\n \n\n \n29 September 2021
\n \n \n \nWe are pleased to announce that Professor Sir John Bell has been selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, for his pioneering advances in the era of translation research, bringing ground-breaking laboratory discoveries into the world of practical medicine.
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\n \n\n \n21 September 2021
\n \n \n \nA University of Oxford professor has been awarded the 2021 EASD-Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Excellence for his decades of effort to understand, prevent and combat type 1 diabetes.
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\n \n\n \n20 September 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, an investigator at the Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, has recently received two prestigious Wellcome accolades.
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\n \n\n \n8 September 2021
\n \n \n \nToday eight Oxford University academics have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI \u2018Future Leaders Fellowships scheme\u2019 that was created to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.\r\n\r\nScience Minister Amanda Solloway announced nearly 100 new Fellows, who will share in \u00a3113 million funding, with individual researchers receiving up to \u00a31.5 million.
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\n \n\n \n27 August 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Alison Simmons, the Director of the Oxford University MRC Human Immunology Unit (MRC HIU), together with Dr Hashem Koohy, group leader at Radcliffe Department of Medicine and the MRC HIU, have been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Paediatric Networks for the Human Cell Atlas grant.
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\n \n\n \n24 August 2021
\n \n \n \nEvery year the Royal Society honours the hard work and achievements of researchers with medals and prizes named after the great scientists of the past. Among the award winners this year the Royal Society recognised five Oxford University Professors, including two from Medical Sciences, for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine
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\n \n\n \n20 August 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford-run VALIDATE Network has received $1.5 million in funding for its tuberculosis vaccine work from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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\n \n\n \n3 August 2021
\n \n \n \nFive graduate students currently studying at Oxford, including two Medical Sciences students, have been awarded \u00a31,000 grants from the Vice Chancellor\u2019s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2021
\n \n \n \nA gift from the Red Avenue Foundation will enable the expansion of a major research programme aimed at rapidly identifying and interrogating emerging COVID-19 variants.
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\n \n\n \n5 July 2021
\n \n \n \nTanmay Bharat, a group leader at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, has been awarded a prestigious Lister Institute Research Prize in the 2021 funding round.
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\n \n\n \n28 June 2021
\n \n \n \nUKRI have announced a major \u00a324 million investment into improving the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK. One of the projects being funded is led by Professor Kam Bhui in the Department of Psychiatry, it will bring together diverse creative-arts, digital and health experts to investigate how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect adolescents' mental health.
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\n \n\n \n24 June 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Lee (Department of Oncology) received the award to acknowledge his contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the establishment of the UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project.
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\n \n\n \n14 June 2021
\n \n \n \nSusan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health in Oxford University\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Food Standards Agency.
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