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Professor Peter O'Neill Receives 2014 Failla Award

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Professor Peter O’Neill of the Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, has been awarded the 2014 Failla Award from the Radiation Research Society.

The Failla award was established in 1962-1963 to honour the late Gioacchino Failla, one of the founding fathers of the Radiation Research Society and its second president. The award is given annually to an outstanding member of the scientific community in recognition of a history of significant contributions to radiation research.

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