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« Back to NewsEuropean Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants awarded to eleven Oxford academics
9 December 2025
Eleven academics from the University of Oxford are to lead new research projects supported by European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants. These grants support highly promising mid-career scientists of any nationality and any field with building a research team at an eligible host organisation.
It's beginning to look a lot like Gutmas!
28 November 2025
Congratulations to Vy Wien Lai, whose image was chosen for 1st place in the UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) and Medical Research Foundation (MRF)2025 Festive Science Image Competition
Dr Joanna Crocker appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to help tackle health inequalities in Oxfordshire
28 November 2025
Dr Joanna Crocker, a Senior Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to lead community-engaged research tackling health inequalities in Oxfordshire
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further Education
26 November 2025
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
Professor Rose McGready recognised for transformative work to improve healthcare for Thai-Myanmar border communities
20 November 2025
Professor Rose McGready, Deputy Director of the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), part of the MORU Tropical Health Network within Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, has been honoured with the 2026 Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Australian of the Year Award.
2025 Teaching Excellence Awards
14 November 2025
The Teaching Excellence Awards recognise and reward excellence in teaching, supervision, the organisation and development of teaching, and support for teaching and learning, within a research-intensive environment.
Oxford researchers awarded funding to pioneer ovarian cancer vaccine development
14 November 2025
Ovarian cancer remains a devastating global health challenge: each year, over 300,000 women are diagnosed, and nearly 200,000 lives are lost, largely because the disease is detected at a late stage. Women carrying inherited genetic changes face a significantly elevated lifetime risk, over 40%, and current preventive strategies often require invasive surgery that compromises fertility. These limitations underscore an urgent need for non-surgical preventive options, and vaccines could offer a groundbreaking solution.
Professor Ellie Tzima receives €10m to investigate the neurovascular interface of peripheral nerves
6 November 2025
Professor Ellie Tzima has been awarded a highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to investigate the enigmatic neurovascular interface of peripheral nerves – a critical but poorly understood junction between the nervous and vascular systems.
The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences celebrates two Cancer Research UK awards for colorectal cancer research
29 October 2025
NDS is celebrating the achievements of Professor Simon Buczacki and Dr Alex Gordon-Weeks, who have both received CRUK Discovery Programme Awards — a rare double success for a single university department.
Michael Bryan wins international award at Europe’s largest cancer conference
24 October 2025
Michael - who is a CRUK Oxford Centre DPhil in Cancer Science student, working in the Nuffield Department of Medicine's Centre of Immuno-oncology - has been awarded the Best Poster Prize in CNS Tumours at the 2025 European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress.
Professor Dame Molly Stevens made International Member of National Academy of Medicine
20 October 2025
Professor Dame Molly Stevens has been invited to become an International member of the USA’s National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Oxford team wins two of three top RCGP Research Paper of the Year awards
17 October 2025
Department researchers win two of three Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year Awards 2025, recognising groundbreaking work on hybrid general practice models and remote care training from the NIHR-funded Remote by Default 2 programme.
The University of Oxford, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Aston University awarded £16.3m for infrastructure to improve people’s health
16 October 2025
The new NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) will work with healthcare professionals and the public to find solutions to local health needs in the Thames Valley and beyond.
Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine 2024-2025
14 October 2025
Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Oxford Cancer Announces 2025 CRIS Cancer Clinical Career Fellows
13 October 2025
Oxford Cancer, together with the CRIS Cancer Foundation, is delighted to announce the appointment of the 2025 CRIS Cancer Postdoctoral Clinical Fellows: Dr Rebecca Ling and Dr Casmir Turnquist. Both Fellows will lead on two distinct projects focused on childhood cancer.
Oxford and Cayetano win Wellcome Discovery Award to transform care for Chronic Mountain Sickness
1 October 2025
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru and the University of Oxford have secured a prestigious Discovery Award worth $3.1 million to launch a four-year programme aimed at improving treatment for Chronic Mountain Sickness (CMS)—a debilitating, neglected condition affecting high-altitude populations.
Professor Prabhat Jha starts as new Head of Department
18 September 2025
Professor Prabhat Jha has started in the role of Head of Department, taking over from Professor Sir Rory Collins who was Head of Department from its inception in 2013.
Outstanding early-career researchers awarded European Research Council funding to launch their ideas
4 September 2025
Today, eleven researchers at the University of Oxford have been selected to receive prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants, each worth €1.5 million for a period of up to five years.
The Kaiya Foundation to fund leukaemia research at University of Oxford
2 September 2025
The Kaiya Foundation has awarded one of its first major research grants, which will fund pioneering research into the fundamental cause of a high-risk leukaemia. The grant is being made to Dr Emily Neil and Professor Anindita Roy from the Childhood Leukaemia Research Group, based at the University of Oxford, in the hope that their discoveries will transform treatment approaches for sufferers through personalised medicine.
Exceptional Oxford researchers awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships
28 August 2025
Three pioneering Oxford researchers are among the first recipients of the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships, prestigious long-term awards to support exceptional mid-career research leaders in the UK. Only seven academics were selected in total from more than 600 initial applications.