Graduate student wins prestigious writing prize

28 October 2013

Biochemistry graduate student, Kate Wright, has won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2013.

Her article, ‘The revenge of the Americas’, gives an engaging and lively account of the debate surrounding the origins of syphilis in Europe. It won the ‘Professional scientists’ category of the competition which was judged by a panel of broadcasters, journalists and scientists.

£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.

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.