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Prestigious award for Oxford professor's diabetes work
Awards and Appointments General
21 September 2021
A 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.
Wellcome accolades for Dr Douglas
Awards and Appointments General
20 September 2021
Dr Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, an investigator at the Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, has recently received two prestigious Wellcome accolades.
Eight Oxford researchers win top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
Awards and Appointments General
8 September 2021
Today eight Oxford University academics have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI ‘Future Leaders Fellowships scheme’ that was created to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business. Science Minister Amanda Solloway announced nearly 100 new Fellows, who will share in £113 million funding, with individual researchers receiving up to £1.5 million.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards Funds to Alison Simmons and Hashem Koohy for Paediatric Research
Awards and Appointments General
27 August 2021
Professor 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.
Five Academics honoured by the Royal Society
Awards and Appointments General
24 August 2021
Every 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
Vaccine for TB receives a $1.5 million funding boost
Awards and Appointments General Research
20 August 2021
The Oxford-run VALIDATE Network has received $1.5 million in funding for its tuberculosis vaccine work from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Oxford's COVID African Innovation Seed Fund announced
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
3 August 2021
Five graduate students currently studying at Oxford, including two Medical Sciences students, have been awarded £1,000 grants from the Vice Chancellor’s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.
Research programme tackling COVID-19 variants of concern receives funding boost
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
27 July 2021
A 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.
Tanmay Bharat Awarded Lister Institute Research Prize
Awards and Appointments General
5 July 2021
Tanmay 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.
£24m investment into adolescent mental health to enable young people to flourish
Awards and Appointments General Research
28 June 2021
UKRI have announced a major £24 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.
Dr Lennard Lee awarded ACP McElwain Prize for contributions to medical oncology
Awards and Appointments General
24 June 2021
Dr 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.
Professor Susan Jebb appointed as Chair of the Food Standards Agency
Awards and Appointments General
14 June 2021
Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health in Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Food Standards Agency.
Oxford University academics recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Awards and Appointments General
12 June 2021
The pioneering work of members of the University, including research into tackling the Coronavirus pandemic, has been recognised in The Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Two Oxford Professors elected as EMBO Members
Awards and Appointments General
10 June 2021
Professor Robert Klose and Professor Ervin Fodor are two of 64 life scientists to be elected to The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
PhD Student of the Year Winner!
Awards and Appointments General Staff and student stories
9 June 2021
In a record breaking year for the Postgrad Awards 2021, DPhil student Tolu Awoyemi wins PhD Student of the Year.
New Head of the Department of Psychiatry – Professor Belinda Lennox
Awards and Appointments General
8 June 2021
Professor Belinda Lennox has been welcomed to the role of Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and will take over leadership in October 2021.
Peter Scanlon wins national award
Awards and Appointments General
21 May 2021
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences' Associate Professor Peter Scanlon has been named as a winner at the prestigious Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Excellence in Patient Care Awards.
The Botnar Research Institute appoints new Director
Awards and Appointments General
18 May 2021
The Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) is delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Rees has been appointed as the new Director of the Botnar Research Institute
Eoghan Mulholland receives prestigious Lee Placito Research Fellowship
Awards and Appointments General
12 May 2021
Dr Eoghan Mulholland has received the prestigious Lee Placito Research Fellowship in Gastrointestinal Cancer. Eoghan will use this 3-year position to research cell interactions in colorectal cancers.
Eleven Oxford professors honoured by the Academy of Medical Sciences
Awards and Appointments General
12 May 2021
The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected 11 University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship.