American Society of Human Genetics honors Prof Dame Davies

Kay Davies The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Kay E. Davies, DPhil, Dr. Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division; and Director of the Medical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit at the University of Oxford, the 2015 recipient of the annual William Allan Award.

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New WA Handley Chair of Psychiatry appointed

1 February 2021

Professor John Geddes has been appointed to the WA Handley Professorship of Psychiatry and will take up this post in November 2021. He will be a fellow of Merton College. A donation from the WA Handley Trust endowed the first Chair of Psychiatry in the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, which was founded in 1969.

Oxford Cancer Centre appoints Prof. Tim Elliott as new co-director

29 January 2021

The CRUK Oxford Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Elliott as its new co-Director.

£100 million donation from Ineos to create new institute to fight antimicrobial resistance

19 January 2021

A new state of the art institute for antimicrobial research is to open at Oxford University thanks to a £100 million donation from Ineos.

MRC HIU appoints new Director

6 January 2021

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Simmons has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit.

New Year's Honours 2021

1 January 2021

Members of the Medical Sciences Division have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2021.

Oxford University awarded £2.4 million to fund DPhil research in inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease

18 December 2020

Oxford University has been awarded a £2.4 million grant, as part of the Kennedy Trust MB PhD scheme, to fund undergraduate medical students to undertake DPhil research in the areas of inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease.