DPhil candidate makes 200 Young South Africans list

22 July 2016

Dr Tinashe Chandauka, a University of Cape Town alumnus who will be pursuing a DPhil in Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, has been named in the 200 Young South Africans 2016 list by the online newspaper Mail & Guardian.

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.

Professor Sir Rory Collins awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2020

17 December 2020

Professor Sir Rory Collins, Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank, has been awarded the Medical Research Council (MRC) Millennium Medal 2020, the MRC’s most prestigious personal award.

University spinout PepGen awarded major financing to target Duchenne muscular dystrophy

9 December 2020

PepGen, a therapeutics company targeting severe neuromuscular diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), has closed a $45 million Series A funding round led by RA Capital Management with participation from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), the company’s original seed investor.

£3M invested to drive forward early translation through five new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships