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\n \n\n \n5 October 2018
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2018
\n \n \n \nAn award-winning Oxford-based international project to tackle antibiotic resistance has achieved its one millionth classification.
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2018
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Medical Sciences Division will be running activities on topics from genetic editing to chocolate.
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Unit recently welcomed Lord James O\u2019Shaughnessy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, for a site visit organised as part of The Royal Society\u2019s Pairing Scheme.
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2018
\n \n \n \n'Topping out' ceremony carried out, with completion on course for next summer
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2018
\n \n \n \nDr Kathryn Robson from the MRC Weatherall Instititute of Molecular Medicine explains how a genetic mutation leads to haemetochromatosis, where people have too much iron.
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation (FLRF) has awarded \u00a32.9 million to the Nuffield Department of Women\u2019s & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford to establish a research centre focused on studying the endocrinology of human lactation.
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2018
\n \n \n \nField researchers, Dr Giacomo Zanello, Dr Marco Haenssgen, Ms Nutcha Charoenboon and Mr Jeffrey Lienert explain the importance of continuing to improve survey research techniques when working in rural areas of developing countries.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2018
\n \n \n \nOxford University, through its innovation arm Oxford University Innovation (OUI), is launching support for the creation of impact-driven businesses: social enterprises.
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\n \n\n \n27 September 2018
\n \n \n \nOxford was today declared the world\u2019s number one university for the third successive year in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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\n \n\n \n25 September 2018
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\n \n\n \n24 September 2018
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\n \n\n \n21 September 2018
\n \n \n \nNew resources now available from the University's inaugural PER conference
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\n \n\n \n14 September 2018
\n \n \n \nA new Oxford Sparks animation with Hazel Hall-Roberts (Alzheimer\u2019s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute) explores how researchers at the University of Oxford are working to discover new treatments for Alzheimer's.
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\n \n\n \n13 September 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary, has attended the inauguration of the Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford (NNRCO).
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\n \n\n \n6 September 2018
\n \n \n \nOxford academic Dr Ben Goldacre has been appointed chair of the UK government\u2019s new HealthTech Advisory Board.
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\n \n\n \n6 September 2018
\n \n \n \nOxford\u2019s cutting-edge work in AI techniques that promise to transform healthcare has been showcased on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme.
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\n \n\n \n4 September 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford University spinout will use the investment to further develop its exosome technology, capable of delivering drugs to previously inaccessible parts of the body.
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\n \n\n \n3 September 2018
\n \n \n \nProfessor Gavin Screaton, Head of the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division, has been appointed as a Non-executive Director of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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\n \n\n \n31 August 2018
\n \n \n \nA pioneering academic conference will bring together, for the first time, people from all over the world dealing with the problem of poor quality medicines and their impact on public health.
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