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« Back to NewsThe 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.
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).