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\n \n\n \n12 August 2020
\n \n \n \nAndrew Saxe (Department of Experimental Psychology) is one of 13 researchers worldwide to receive this award.
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\n \n\n \n10 August 2020
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has received more than \u20ac270,000 from the European Commission as a part of a multi-nation research project to promote citizen science.
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\n \n\n \n4 August 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
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\n \n\n \n4 August 2020
\n \n \n \nThere 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\u2019s disease (PD).
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2020
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\n \n\n \n23 July 2020
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\n \n\n \n10 July 2020
\n \n \n \nA generous gift of \u00a33.5 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.
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\n \n\n \n3 July 2020
\n \n \n \nYang Shi has been appointed a Member of the Ludwig Oxford Branch to continue his research into chromatin, RNA modifications and cancer.
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\n \n\n \n2 July 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Mark Coles was recently appointed to the governing body of the University\u2019s newest graduate college.
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\n \n\n \n2 July 2020
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes this year.
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\n \n\n \n23 June 2020
\n \n \n \nRecognised 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.
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\n \n\n \n18 June 2020
\n \n \n \nChristopher Buckley, Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology at the University of Oxford and Birmingham, has been awarded the 2020 Carol Nachman prize for Rheumatology.
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\n \n\n \n10 June 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford 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.
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\n \n\n \n3 June 2020
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n29 May 2020
\n \n \n \nHugh Grosvenor, The Duke of Westminster, has donated \u00a31m towards Oxford University\u2019s COVID-19 mental health research programmes. This is part of the \u00a310m donation announced by the Westminster Foundation last month to support the national COVID-19 relief effort.
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\n \n\n \n21 May 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck, 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.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Government has announced \u00a365.5 million of new funding for the vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford as coronavirus vaccine trials accelerate.
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\n \n\n \n13 May 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Academy of Medical Sciences, the independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science, has today announced the election of fifty new Fellows, including six academics from the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n30 April 2020
\n \n \n \nTwo different teams from the Medical Sciences Division have received a share of $14 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as one of 29 projects that will explore emerging ideas regarding the role of inflammation in disease.
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\n \n\n \n29 April 2020
\n \n \n \nSix Oxford University academics, including three from the Medical Sciences Division, have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
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