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\n \n\n \n20 December 2022
\n \n \n \nA vaccine scientist from the University of Oxford recently received the prestigious Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2022, which recognises the contribution of members of the Irish diaspora.
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\n \n\n \n15 December 2022
\n \n \n \nFrom 2 January 2023, Professor Peter Magill will lead the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit (MRC BNDU) at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n12 December 2022
\n \n \n \nAlexandra Preston, a doctoral student from MRC Human Immunology Unit (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), delivered a plenary talk on 11th December at the ASH Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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\n \n\n \n12 December 2022
\n \n \n \nIn his talk, Demis mentioned how they were able to solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold. For 50 years, people have been working on protein folding, a problem first articulated by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen.
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\n \n\n \n30 November 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have been recgonised in The Genetics Society 2023 awards.
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\n \n\n \n23 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Leedham Lab in Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over \u00a32M from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
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\n \n\n \n23 November 2022
\n \n \n \nThe award recognises Radcliffe Department of Medicine's Professor Higgs major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
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\n \n\n \n28 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 2021 and 2022 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards were celebrated in a ceremony at St Catherine\u2019s College earlier this week.
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\n \n\n \n27 October 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford University has been ranked as the world's best institution for clinical and health teaching and research for the twelfth consecutive year in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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\n \n\n \n21 October 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Christopher Fairburn has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.
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\n \n\n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nDr Lennard Lee, academic clinical lecturer at the Department of Oncology was recognised as part of the InterAcademy Partnership Young Physician Leaders Programme 2022
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\n \n\n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nHealth and care research in Oxford is to receive \u00a3122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA University of Oxford team has been awarded a grant to study one of the major unsolved questions about asthma \u2013 why women are more likely to have it than men and why they are twice as likely to die from it.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
\n \n \n \nCancer Research UK has today announced the appointment of Professor Ketan (KJ) Patel FRS FMedSci (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) as its new Chief Scientist.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2022
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\n \n\n \n22 September 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, part of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, has been awarded funding worth \u00a37m for their work as an NIHR Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) for the next five years. The Centre\u2019s research and capacity building work focuses on delivering genomics and enabling data for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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\n \n\n \n8 September 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) who is to be awarded the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, together with Professors Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.
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\n \n\n \n7 September 2022
\n \n \n \n\u00a373,000 of professional development grants are being awarded to Oxford\u2019s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and research practitioners to develop skills that will support them to research new and improved ways of delivering healthcare to patients and service users.
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\n \n\n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Department welcomes Professor Dame Sue Black DBE OBE FRSE FBA FRAI FRSB ChFA, Baroness Black of Strome and one of the world\u2019s leading forensic scientists, as our Visiting Professor of Forensic Anatomy.
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\n \n\n \n24 August 2022
\n \n \n \nClinical medical student, Yusuf Ben-Tarifite, has been selected to join the Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA) Scholars programme - a prestigious scholarship set up to develop and nurture healthcare leaders of the future. After completing a rigorous selection process, Yusuf will be joining the academy\u2019s cohort for the 2022/23 academic year.
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