The Leedham Lab in Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over \u00a32M from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
The award recognises Radcliffe Department of Medicine's Professor Higgs major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
Oxford University has been ranked as the world's best institution for clinical and health teaching and research for the twelfth consecutive year in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Professor Christopher Fairburn has been awarded the 2022 American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.
Dr Lennard Lee, academic clinical lecturer at the Department of Oncology was recognised as part of the InterAcademy Partnership Young Physician Leaders Programme 2022
Health and care research in Oxford is to receive \u00a3122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
A University of Oxford team has been awarded a grant to study one of the major unsolved questions about asthma \u2013 why women are more likely to have it than men and why they are twice as likely to die from it.
Cancer Research UK has today announced the appointment of Professor Ketan (KJ) Patel FRS FMedSci (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) as its new Chief Scientist.
The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, part of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, has been awarded funding worth \u00a37m for their work as an NIHR Global Health Research Unit (GHRU) for the next five years. The Centre\u2019s research and capacity building work focuses on delivering genomics and enabling data for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Congratulations to Professor Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) who is to be awarded the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, together with Professors Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.
\u00a373,000 of professional development grants are being awarded to Oxford\u2019s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and research practitioners to develop skills that will support them to research new and improved ways of delivering healthcare to patients and service users.
The Department welcomes Professor Dame Sue Black DBE OBE FRSE FBA FRAI FRSB ChFA, Baroness Black of Strome and one of the world\u2019s leading forensic scientists, as our Visiting Professor of Forensic Anatomy.
Clinical medical student, Yusuf Ben-Tarifite, has been selected to join the Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA) Scholars programme - a prestigious scholarship set up to develop and nurture healthcare leaders of the future. After completing a rigorous selection process, Yusuf will be joining the academy\u2019s cohort for the 2022/23 academic year.
Each year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. Eight of the 2021-22 awards, announced today, honour Oxford University researchers for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
Seven academics from the University of Oxford have been elected as 2022 Fellows of the British Academy, including Professor Daniel Freeman in Department of Psychiatry.
Three University of Oxford academics have become the latest to join the 1,900 eminent life scientists in Europe and beyond that make up the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
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