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« Back to NewsProfessor 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.
Four Oxford researchers recognised in the 2025 Royal Society Awards
27 August 2025
The annual Royal Society Awards recognise exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes. Of the 27 awards for 2024-25, announced today, four honour Oxford University researchers for their outstanding contributions to scientific discovery, public engagement and research culture.
£27 million gift funds new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research focused on young people’s mental health
6 August 2025
A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at the University of Oxford thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation.
The Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) recognised as a European Centre of Excellence
29 July 2025
NDORMS has been awarded the designation of a EULAR Centre of Excellence for a third consecutive term. This prestigious award is a recognition of the department’s contribution to advancing the science of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
From practice to progress: Oxford’s NMAHPPs celebrate research that makes a difference
18 July 2025
More than 225 of Oxford’s health and care professionals came together on 2nd July to share and celebrate research led and delivered by the area’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, pharmacists and clinical psychologists (NMAHPPs).
New £50m MRC Centre launched to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
16 July 2025
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Oxford’s OrganOx wins the MacRobert Award 2025
9 July 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that OrganOx has won the £50,000 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation, for its life-saving technology that is supporting more organ transplants and helping to cut waiting lists.
Helen Byrne wins Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics
4 July 2025
Professor Helen Byrne has won the 2025 Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics from the London Mathematical Society.
Oxford researchers become EMBO members
3 July 2025
Two University of Oxford academics have become the latest to join the eminent life scientists in Europe and beyond that make up the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Oxford academics awarded European Research Council Advanced Grants for cutting-edge research
19 June 2025
Seven researchers at the University of Oxford, including four from Medical Sciences, have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council, each worth up to €2.5 million over a period of five years.
Oxford’s OrganOx is shortlisted for the MacRobert Award 2025
17 June 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the finalists for the 2025 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation.
Oxford neurosurgeon secures nearly £2 million for brain cancer trial
17 June 2025
Associate Professor Puneet Plaha of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has been awarded a £1.98 million NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) grant to lead a five-year clinical trial addressing one of the most critical questions in brain cancer care.
King's Birthday Honours 2025
13 June 2025
Professor Andrew Carr has been recognised and celebrated in the 2025 King's Birthday Honours list.
Early-career researcher wins £1.2 million Wellcome award
10 June 2025
Mr Keaton Jones from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has secured a prestigious Wellcome Early-Career Award worth £1.2 million. His research will investigate the role of macrophages, a type of immune cell, and their metabolism in driving immunotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer.
Malaria vaccine wins Galien Foundation prize for Best Public Sector Innovation
9 June 2025
The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine has received the Galien Foundation prize for Best Public Sector Innovation. Members of the Jenner Institute team, Prof Sir Adrian Hill, Mehreen Datoo and Lisa Stockdale were present during the Galien Foundation UK Forum & Awards Ceremony in London on 05 June 2025.
Academy of Medical Sciences elects five Oxford researchers as new Fellows
22 May 2025
The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected five University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship in 2025.
Eight Oxford Scientists Elected Fellows of the Royal Society
21 May 2025
Eight distinguished academics from the University of Oxford have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to science.