Timeline
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c.1100 |
Teaching begins at the University of Oxford |
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c. 1310 |
Oxford doctor John of Gaddesden publishes the Rosa Anglica, Britain’s earliest surviving medical textbook |
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1546 |
Henry VIII establishes the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford |
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1621 |
Oxford Botanic Garden, one of the oldest physic gardens in the world, opened |
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1628 |
William Harvey publishes a treatise on the circulation of the blood |
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1665 |
Oxford student Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia, which demonstrates the cell structure of living tissue |
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1714 |
Doctor John Radcliffe dies, leaving a substantial fortune to the University |
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1770 |
Radcliffe Infirmary opened |
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1883 |
Department of Physiology established |
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1893 |
Department of Anatomy established |
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1912 |
Department of Pharmacology established |
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1920 |
Department of Biochemistry established |
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1927 |
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology established |
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1935 |
The Nuffield Institute of Medical Research opened |
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1936 |
Institute of Experimental Psychology established |
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1937 |
Nuffield Chairs created in Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Anaesthetics, and Orthopaedic Surgery, with associated departments following |
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1939 |
Full postgraduate medical school established, with undergraduate students soon accepted |
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1941 |
First systemic administration of penicillin given to a human at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology |
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1946 |
The medical school is permanently established for postgraduate and undergraduate teaching |
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1959 |
James Gowans and Peter Medawar discover the role of the lymphocyte |
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1969 |
Department of Psychiatry established |
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1979 |
John Radcliffe Hospital opens; Mahidol-Oxford-Wellcome Unit opened in Bangkok |
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2000 |
Medical Sciences Division formed |
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2005 |
Oxford teams in Thailand publish landmark paper on the treatment of malaria |
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2007 |
NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) established |
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2010 |
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Oncology established |
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2012 |
Radcliffe Department of Medicine established; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) is awarded £95.5m of funding to 2017 |
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2013 |
Medical Sciences Division sign a Joint Working Agreement with the Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust; Nuffield Department of Population Health established |
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2016 |
University of Oxford ranked number one in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) is awarded £113.7m for 2017 to 2022; £12.8 million is awarded to establish a new Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre specialising in mental health and dementia |