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\n \n\n \n12 June 2021
\n \n \n \nThe pioneering work of members of the University, including research into tackling the Coronavirus pandemic, has been recognised in The Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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\n \n\n \n10 June 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Robert Klose and Professor Ervin Fodor are two of 64 life scientists to be elected to The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
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\n \n\n \n9 June 2021
\n \n \n \nIn a record breaking year for the Postgrad Awards 2021, DPhil student Tolu Awoyemi wins PhD Student of the Year.
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\n \n\n \n8 June 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Belinda Lennox has been welcomed to the role of Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and will take over leadership in October 2021.
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\n \n\n \n21 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences' Associate Professor Peter Scanlon has been named as a winner at the prestigious Royal College of Physicians\u2019 (RCP) Excellence in Patient Care Awards.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) is delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Rees has been appointed as the new Director of the Botnar Research Institute
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\n \n\n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Eoghan Mulholland has received the prestigious Lee Placito Research Fellowship in Gastrointestinal Cancer. Eoghan will use this 3-year position to research cell interactions in colorectal cancers.
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\n \n\n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Academy of Medical Sciences has elected 11 University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship.
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\n \n\n \n7 May 2021
\n \n \n \nSix scientists from the University of Oxford, including Professor Adrian Hill and Professor Frances Platt from the Medical Sciences Division, have joined the Royal Society as Fellows.
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\n \n\n \n5 May 2021
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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\n \n\n \n4 May 2021
\n \n \n \nSixth year Clinical Medical student, Ryan Purdy (Worcester College), placed first in the Royal College of Ophthalmology's annual Prize Examination.
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\n \n\n \n19 March 2021
\n \n \n \nGround-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.
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\n \n\n \n18 March 2021
\n \n \n \nAssociate 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 \u00a34.3 million in scientific funding, will allow leading researchers in the field to delve into the biology of children\u2019s and young people\u2019s cancers, with the hope of finding new ways to prevent and treat these complex cancers.
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\n \n\n \n12 March 2021
\n \n \n \nHonouring 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)
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\n \n\n \n10 March 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Cecilia Lindgren has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Oxford\u2019s Big Data Institute.
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\n \n\n \n9 March 2021
\n \n \n \nFive leading healthcare academics in Oxford have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators
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\n \n\n \n9 March 2021
\n \n \n \nOxford Medical Sciences has come top in two subject areas in the latest and internationally-respected QS rankings.
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\n \n\n \n5 March 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Sarah Gilbert has been awarded the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce\u2019 (RSA) Albert Medal for her work on the Oxford vaccine.
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\n \n\n \n1 February 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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\u2019s Department of Psychiatry, which was founded in 1969.
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\n \n\n \n29 January 2021
\n \n \n \nThe CRUK Oxford Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Tim Elliott as its new co-Director.
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