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Oxfordshire-based SCAN pathway wins BMJ award
Awards and Appointments General
9 October 2020
Every year, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) runs a competition to find the cancer care team that has developed new approaches to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment. This year, six teams were shortlisted from across the UK and on the 7th October it was announced that the Oxfordshire-based SCAN pathway had won this year’s award.
Enriching Engagement (Round 2) awardees announced
Awards and Appointments General Public Engagement with Research
25 August 2020
The awardees for the second round of the University of Oxford’s Enriching Engagement funding scheme have now been announced, including six projects from across the Medical Sciences Division.
Elspeth Garman wins Suffrage Science award for women in STEM
Awards and Appointments General
17 August 2020
Andrew Saxe named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
Awards and Appointments General
12 August 2020
Andrew Saxe (Department of Experimental Psychology) is one of 13 researchers worldwide to receive this award.
BRC-OCDEM project wins European funding for citizen science metabolism project
Awards and Appointments General Research
10 August 2020
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has received more than €270,000 from the European Commission as a part of a multi-nation research project to promote citizen science.
Professor David Stuart awarded The Gabor Medal 2020
Awards and Appointments General
4 August 2020
Professor David Stuart has been awarded The Gabor Medal 2020 for his seminal contributions to understanding virus structure and application to vaccine design, as well as driving the application of engineering and physical science to the life sciences.
Professor Fran Platt secures £1M funding over two years for vital Parkinson's Disease research, in collaboration with Pfizer
Awards and Appointments General Innovation Research
4 August 2020
There is an increasing body of genetic and biochemical evidence that points toward lysosomal dysfunction as a risk factor for developing age-related neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Nuffield Department of Population Health paper is BMJ UK Research Paper of the Year 2020
Awards and Appointments General Research
23 July 2020
Future of Oxford professorship in vaccinology secured with £3.5 million gift
Awards and Appointments General
10 July 2020
A generous gift of £3.5 million from Lakshmi Mittal and his family has secured the future of a critical professorship in vaccinology at the University. The post, which is currently held by Professor Adrian Hill, will be known as the Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology in recognition of this support.
Ludwig Oxford welcomes cancer epigenetics researcher Yang Shi
Awards and Appointments General
3 July 2020
Yang Shi has been appointed a Member of the Ludwig Oxford Branch to continue his research into chromatin, RNA modifications and cancer.
Kennedy Professor leads Cellular Life Theme of Reuben College
Awards and Appointments General
2 July 2020
Professor Mark Coles was recently appointed to the governing body of the University’s newest graduate college.
Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine
Awards and Appointments General
2 July 2020
Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes this year.
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.