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\n \n\n \n23 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy takes a major stride forward with the official launch of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science and appointment of Ben Goldacre as Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
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\n \n\n \n15 March 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessors Matthew Higgins and Michael Dustin from the University of Oxford, Prof Gavin Wright from the University of York, and Professors Shiroh Iwanaga and Hisashi Arase from Osaka University have secured a Wellcome Collaborative Award for their study \u201cHow do RIFINs and STEVORs modulate human immunity during malaria?\u201d
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\n \n\n \n7 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) is one of 28 facilities across England to benefit from nearly \u00a3161 million that has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to expand early phase clinical research delivery in NHS hospitals.
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\n \n\n \n3 March 2022
\n \n \n \nSeven academics in Oxford have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their outstanding leadership in research.
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\n \n\n \n2 March 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Sally Collins has been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Sir Jules Thorn Translational Biomedical Research Award 2021 for further translational development of the OxNNet Toolkit.
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\n \n\n \n23 February 2022
\n \n \n \nThe UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre awarded QUOD (Quality in Organ Donation) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences first place in the UK Biobank of the Year.
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\n \n\n \n15 February 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Keith Channon has been appointed as the next Head of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine (RDM).
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\n \n\n \n14 February 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford's Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert has been named a Laureate of the 5th Sunhak Peace Prize for her efforts to protect global health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n14 February 2022
\n \n \n \nProfessor Jonathan Rees will take up the leadership role in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) on 1 April.
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\n \n\n \n14 February 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Department of Pharmacology is delighted to announce the appointment of Sir Jonathan Symonds CBE, Chair of the Board of GlaxoSmithKline, as a Visiting Fellow. Jon has been Chairman of the Board at GSK since September 2019.
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\n \n\n \n3 February 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Medical Sciences Division welcomes Steve Bates, CEO of the UK Bioindustry Association, as a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence. Steve Bates will be working very closely with our Translational Research Office and key teams across the University of Oxford's innovation ecosystem.
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\n \n\n \n28 January 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Royal Academy of Arts has named the University of Oxford's Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert as one of its Honorary Fellows.
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\n \n\n \n24 January 2022
\n \n \n \nA \u00a311 million Cancer Research UK investment has been awarded to the University of Oxford and Oxford-based NHS to catalyse the translation of its world-leading cancer research for patient benefit.
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\n \n\n \n10 January 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for postdoctoral research scientist Dr Christoph Treiber who has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. His funded project will investigate the genetic components that may contribute to diversity of brain function and behaviour.
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\n \n\n \n4 January 2022
\n \n \n \nMembers of the Medical Sciences Division have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2022.
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\n \n\n \n9 December 2021
\n \n \n \nKavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery\u2019s first Director, Professor Dame Carol Robinson has been awarded a prestigious 2022 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry.
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\n \n\n \n3 December 2021
\n \n \n \nFour researchers from the University of Oxford have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to immunology with Honorary Lifetime Membership of the British Society for Immunology, with the awards being announced at the recent British Society for Immunology Congress held in Edinburgh.
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\n \n\n \n2 December 2021
\n \n \n \nCoronavirus researchers from across Medical Sciences have been honoured at the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards.
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\n \n\n \n29 November 2021
\n \n \n \nHer Majesty The Queen has approved the award of The Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prizes to twenty-one higher and further education institutions, including Oxford University, in the most recent round of the independently reviewed scheme. This prestigious award is the highest national honour available to universities and FE colleges across the UK.
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\n \n\n \n26 November 2021
\n \n \n \nThe team at the University of Oxford\u2019s Jenner Institute has been celebrated for their global pandemic work by The Oxford Trust\u2019s Covid Innovation Heroes Award\u00ad 2021.
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