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Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine 2020-2021
Awards and Appointments General
5 May 2021
Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Top place for Oxford Clinical Medical Student in prestigious national Ophthalmology Duke Elder Prize Examination
Awards and Appointments General
4 May 2021
Sixth year Clinical Medical student, Ryan Purdy (Worcester College), placed first in the Royal College of Ophthalmology's annual Prize Examination.
Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities
Awards and Appointments General Research
19 March 2021
Ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research is to be launched today by the University of Oxford into the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood, thanks to major funding from the Leverhulme Trust.
Innovation award for Professor Anindita Roy to develop new treatments for childhood cancer
Awards and Appointments General Innovation Research
18 March 2021
Associate Professor Andi Roy leads one of the five research teams across the UK that have been awarded the 2021 Cancer Research UK-Children with Cancer UK Innovation Award. The awards, which provide a total of £4.3 million in scientific funding, will allow leading researchers in the field to delve into the biology of children’s and young people’s cancers, with the hope of finding new ways to prevent and treat these complex cancers.
Two Oxford pioneers honoured on Sherrington Building Plaques
Awards and Appointments General
12 March 2021
Honouring the heritage of pioneering physiologists Sir Charles Sherrington and Florence Buchanan. "Commemorating both pioneers together highlights the importance of advocacy and mentoring that was evident over a century ago as equality was championed." (Professor David Paterson, Head of Department, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)
Professor Cecilia Lindgren appointed Director of the Big Data Institute
Awards and Appointments General
10 March 2021
Professor Cecilia Lindgren has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute.
Oxford medical researchers named NIHR Senior Investigators
Awards and Appointments General
9 March 2021
Five leading healthcare academics in Oxford have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators
Success in QS Subject Ranking
Awards and Appointments General
9 March 2021
Oxford Medical Sciences has come top in two subject areas in the latest and internationally-respected QS rankings.
Oxford vaccine creator Professor Sarah Gilbert awarded RSA Albert Medal
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General Innovation Research
5 March 2021
Professor Sarah Gilbert has been awarded the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce’ (RSA) Albert Medal for her work on the Oxford vaccine.
New WA Handley Chair of Psychiatry appointed
Awards and Appointments General
1 February 2021
Professor John Geddes has been appointed to the WA Handley Professorship of Psychiatry and will take up this post in November 2021. He will be a fellow of Merton College. A donation from the WA Handley Trust endowed the first Chair of Psychiatry in the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, which was founded in 1969.
Oxford Cancer Centre appoints Prof. Tim Elliott as new co-director
Awards and Appointments General
29 January 2021
The CRUK Oxford Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Elliott as its new co-Director.
£100 million donation from Ineos to create new institute to fight antimicrobial resistance
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
19 January 2021
A new state of the art institute for antimicrobial research is to open at Oxford University thanks to a £100 million donation from Ineos.
MRC HIU appoints new Director
Awards and Appointments General
6 January 2021
We are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Simmons has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit.
New Year's Honours 2021
Awards and Appointments General
1 January 2021
Members of the Medical Sciences Division have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2021.
Oxford University awarded £2.4 million to fund DPhil research in inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease
Awards and Appointments General
18 December 2020
Oxford University has been awarded a £2.4 million grant, as part of the Kennedy Trust MB PhD scheme, to fund undergraduate medical students to undertake DPhil research in the areas of inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease.
Professor Sir Rory Collins awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2020
Awards and Appointments General
17 December 2020
Professor Sir Rory Collins, Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank, has been awarded the Medical Research Council (MRC) Millennium Medal 2020, the MRC’s most prestigious personal award.
University spinout PepGen awarded major financing to target Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
9 December 2020
PepGen, a therapeutics company targeting severe neuromuscular diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), has closed a $45 million Series A funding round led by RA Capital Management with participation from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), the company’s original seed investor.
£3M invested to drive forward early translation through five new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
9 December 2020
Five new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships representing an investment of £3M have been announced today*. The fellowships (formerly Oxford-Celgene) will support postdoctoral researchers and clinicians across five departments within the Medical Sciences Division and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, providing an opportunity for them to gain exposure to the field of commercial drug discovery and development.
University of Oxford awarded major European Research Council funding
Awards and Appointments General Research
9 December 2020
European Research Council grants worth more than €16.3 million have today been awarded to eight University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.
Oxford vaccine team shortlisted for parliamentary awards
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 Research
24 November 2020
The University of Oxford team who have developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time have been shortlisted for the Excellence in Healthcare Award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards.