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Oxford scientists honoured with eight Royal Society Awards
Awards and Appointments General Research
24 August 2022
Each year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. Eight of the 2021-22 awards, announced today, honour Oxford University researchers for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
Experimental Psychology Graduate Davide Folloni wins prestigious Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation
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4 August 2022
Professor Hugh Watkins wins £30 million research award to cure killer heart diseases
Awards and Appointments General Research
29 July 2022
The British Heart Foundation award aims to help researchers rewrite DNA, in “defining moment” for cardiovascular medicine.
Seven Oxford academics elected British Academy Fellows
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22 July 2022
Seven academics from the University of Oxford have been elected as 2022 Fellows of the British Academy, including Professor Daniel Freeman in Department of Psychiatry.
Oxford researchers become EMBO members
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6 July 2022
Three University of Oxford academics have become the latest to join the 1,900 eminent life scientists in Europe and beyond that make up the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard Awarded the James Spence Medal in 2022
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1 July 2022
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, BSc MA MBBS MRCP(UK) FRCPCH PhD DIC FHEA FIDSA FMedSci, is Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Oxford Children’s Hospital and Vice Master of St Cross College, Oxford.
PhD Student of the Year 2022 Winner!
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28 June 2022
Congratulations to Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health DPhil student Josephine Agyeman-Duah on being named winner of PhD Student of the Year at the Postgrad Awards 2022.
Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine 2021-2022
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27 June 2022
Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Oxford to receive £7 million to turn bright ideas into global opportunities
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
15 June 2022
The University of Oxford has been awarded more than £7 million, the highest amount of funding given to organisations across the UK, in the latest round of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding - aimed at fueling the best, brightest and most disruptive ideas from UK research institutions.
Queen’s Birthday Honours recognise service from Vice-Chancellor and Oxford colleagues
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7 June 2022
Members of the University have been recognised in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours List, including scientists from across the Medical Sciences Division.
Collaborative team driven by DPAG and Chemistry awarded RSC Horizon Prize
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7 June 2022
The Molecular Flow Sensor Team, with collaborating members principally from DPAG’s Robbins and Talbot groups and the Department of Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) Analytical Division Horizon Prize for the development of a new technology for measuring lung function.
Three NHSBT research units launch at University of Oxford
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18 May 2022
The NIHR has awarded three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) to the University of Oxford.
Museums Heritage Award win for Meat the Future
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12 May 2022
At last night’s glittering Museums + Heritage Awards ceremony, LEAP and the Oxford Museum of Natural History were over the moon to win the 2022 Partnership of the Year Award for Meat the Future: A partnership to feed minds and bodies.
Cathy Creswell, David Roberts, and Matthew Costa elected Fellows of Academy of Medical Sciences
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11 May 2022
Cathy Creswell, Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology at the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, David Roberts, Professor of Haematology at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Consultant Haematologist, and Matthew Costa, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Susan Lea and Jordan Raff elected Fellows of the Royal Society
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10 May 2022
Many congratulations to Susan and Jordan for this prestigious honour, recognising their contributions to structural and centrosome biology, respectively
Professor Irene Tracey CBE FMedSci nominated as next Oxford Vice-Chancellor
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10 May 2022
Professor Irene Tracey, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Oxford Clinical Medical Student tops prestigious national Ophthalmology Duke Elder Prize Examination
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28 April 2022
Clinical Medical student, Peter Rae (Pembroke College, Year 5), placed first in the Royal College of Ophthalmology's annual examination
MRC National Mouse Genetics Network Research Clusters Announced
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19 April 2022
Fran Platt awarded 2023 Thudichum Medal
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7 April 2022
Pharmacology Head of Department, Professor Fran Platt, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Thudichum Medal, presented by the Biochemical Society.
Athena Swan Silver Award renewal for Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
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23 March 2022
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have been successful in the renewal of their Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising their work in advancing gender equality.