Early career researcher receives 2014 Bettencourt Award

8 January 2015

Department of Physiology, Anatomy and genetics Professor Scott Waddell is the recipient of the 2014 Bettencourt Award.

Each year, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation awards the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences to a young researcher (under 45), recognized in the scientific community for the quality of his or her international publications. In addition to the recipient’s scientific recognition, the award-winning researcher must conduct a research project that is particularly promising and be able to build a team for the project.

Read more (Department of Physiology, Genetics and Anatomy website)

Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine 2020-2021

5 May 2021

Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Top place for Oxford Clinical Medical Student in prestigious national Ophthalmology Duke Elder Prize Examination

4 May 2021

Sixth year Clinical Medical student, Ryan Purdy (Worcester College), placed first in the Royal College of Ophthalmology's annual Prize Examination.

Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities

19 March 2021

Ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research is to be launched today by the University of Oxford into the impact of poverty and social inequalities in early childhood, thanks to major funding from the Leverhulme Trust.

Innovation award for Professor Anindita Roy to develop new treatments for childhood cancer

18 March 2021

Associate Professor Andi Roy leads one of the five research teams across the UK that have been awarded the 2021 Cancer Research UK-Children with Cancer UK Innovation Award. The awards, which provide a total of £4.3 million in scientific funding, will allow leading researchers in the field to delve into the biology of children’s and young people’s cancers, with the hope of finding new ways to prevent and treat these complex cancers.

Two Oxford pioneers honoured on Sherrington Building Plaques

12 March 2021

Honouring the heritage of pioneering physiologists Sir Charles Sherrington and Florence Buchanan. "Commemorating both pioneers together highlights the importance of advocacy and mentoring that was evident over a century ago as equality was championed." (Professor David Paterson, Head of Department, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics)

Professor Cecilia Lindgren appointed Director of the Big Data Institute

10 March 2021

Professor Cecilia Lindgren has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute.