Search results
Found 257 matches for
An internationally recognised centre of excellence for biomedical and clinical research and teaching
Daniel Freeman to join Department of Experimental Psychology as Professor of Psychology
Awards and Appointments General
23 January 2023
The Department of Experimental Psychology are delighted to announce that Daniel Freeman has been appointed as their new Professor of Psychology, joining from the Department of Psychiatry.
Oxford to lead international consortium to unlock potential of programmable nucleic acid drugs
Awards and Appointments General
17 January 2023
A consortium led by Matthew Wood, Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Paediatrics and Director of the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre, has been awarded £8m of funding from UKRI, LifeArc and the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA) via the Nucleic Acid Therapies (NAT) Delivery Research Challenge.
Professor Marian Knight recognised for services to maternal and public health
Awards and Appointments General
31 December 2022
Professor Knight's research focuses on the care and prevention of severe complications of pregnancy and early life and addressing disparities in outcomes for women and babies from different population groups.
Oxford vaccinologist Teresa Lambe honoured with Irish Abroad award
Awards and Appointments General
20 December 2022
A vaccine scientist from the University of Oxford recently received the prestigious Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2022, which recognises the contribution of members of the Irish diaspora.
Director of MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit appointed
Awards and Appointments General
15 December 2022
From 2 January 2023, Professor Peter Magill will lead the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit (MRC BNDU) at the University of Oxford.
Alexandra Preston receives ASH Outstanding Abstract Achievement Award
Awards and Appointments General Staff and student stories
12 December 2022
Alexandra Preston, a doctoral student from MRC Human Immunology Unit (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), delivered a plenary talk on 11th December at the ASH Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Demis Hassabis Visited Kavli INsD for the Kavli Award Lecture 2022
Awards and Appointments General
12 December 2022
In his talk, Demis mentioned how they were able to solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold. For 50 years, people have been working on protein folding, a problem first articulated by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen.
Success for Oxford researchers in The Genetics Society 2023 Awards
Awards and Appointments General Staff and student stories
30 November 2022
Researchers from Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have been recgonised in The Genetics Society 2023 awards.
New tool aims to make bowel cancer treatments more effective
Awards and Appointments General
23 November 2022
The Leedham Lab in Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over £2M from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
Doug Higgs awarded the 2023 Genetics Society Medal
Awards and Appointments General
23 November 2022
The award recognises Radcliffe Department of Medicine's Professor Higgs major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
Past two years of MSD Teaching Excellence Awards celebrated
Awards and Appointments General
28 October 2022
The 2021 and 2022 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards were celebrated in a ceremony at St Catherine’s College earlier this week.
Oxford retains top spot for medicine for twelfth consecutive year
Awards and Appointments General
27 October 2022
Oxford University has been ranked as the world's best institution for clinical and health teaching and research for the twelfth consecutive year in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Major award given to Professor Chris Fairburn
Awards and Appointments General
21 October 2022
Professor Christopher Fairburn has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.
Dr Lennard Lee recognised as one of the world's 21 outstanding young physicians below the age of 40
Awards and Appointments General
20 October 2022
Dr Lennard Lee, academic clinical lecturer at the Department of Oncology was recognised as part of the InterAcademy Partnership Young Physician Leaders Programme 2022
Oxford gets £122m funding for healthcare research
Awards and Appointments General
14 October 2022
Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
Oxford researchers to study why asthma is worse in women
Awards and Appointments General
12 October 2022
A University of Oxford team has been awarded a grant to study one of the major unsolved questions about asthma – why women are more likely to have it than men and why they are twice as likely to die from it.
KJ Patel appointed new Chief Scientist of CRUK
Awards and Appointments General
12 October 2022
Cancer Research UK has today announced the appointment of Professor Ketan (KJ) Patel FRS FMedSci (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) as its new Chief Scientist.
Kia Nobre awarded prestigious C.L. de Carvalho- Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2022
Awards and Appointments General Research
30 September 2022
Major new NIHR Global Health Research Unit to focus on data science and genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
Awards and Appointments General
22 September 2022
The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, part of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, has been awarded funding worth £7m for their work as an NIHR Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) for the next five years. The Centre’s research and capacity building work focuses on delivering genomics and enabling data for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Gero Miesenböck awarded Horwitz Prize for foundational work on Optogenetics
Awards and Appointments General
8 September 2022
Congratulations to Professor Gero Miesenböck (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) who is to be awarded the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, together with Professors Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.